Includes bibliographical references and index.

African awakenings: the courage to invent the future / Firoze Manji -- The never-ending revolution: perspectives from the African blogosphere / Sokari Ekine -- Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: history, interest and parallels / Explo Nani-Kofi -- Tunisia: the fall of the West's little dictator / Esam Al-Amin -- Gabon's lords of poverty / Khadija Sharife -- Tunisia's revolution: self-organisation for self-emancipation / Horace Campbell -- Aslema ya Tusis, au revoir Ben Ali / Mekakou Tegegn -- Tunisia and Egypt: revolutions without self-proclaimed revolutionaries / Horace Campbell -- Egypt: free at last, an inside look / Hassan El Ghayesh -- Chronicles of an Egyptian revolution: a protester's first-hand account / Hassan El Gayesh -- Egypt and the revolution in our minds / Nigel C. Gibson -- Egypt: women of the revolution / Fatma Naib -- 'The power is within us': a protest diary from Cameroon / Kah Walla -- Uganda elections: 'an exercise in shame-faced endorsement' / J. Oloka-Onyango -- Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: the impact on women / Massan d'Almeida -- Awakening protests in Morocco and Western Sahara / Konstantina Isidoros -- Peoples' revolts in Burkina Faso / Lila Chouli -- North African dispatches: why Algeria is different / Imad Mesdoua -- Libya: behind the politics of humanitarian intervention / Mahmood Mamdani -- Swaziland: uprising in the slipstream of North Africa / Peter Kenworthy -- The lies behind the West's war on Libya / Jean-Paul Pougala -- South Africa: on the murder of Andries Tatane / Richard Pithouse -- Unrest in Algeria: the window is closing fast / Lakhdar Ghettas -- Whose dictator is Gaddafi? / Yash Tandon -- An African reflection on Tahrir Square / Mahmood Mamdani -- How might things move forward in Libya? / Yash Tandon -- The Tunisian revolution did not come out of nowhere / Sadri Khiari & Beatrice Hibou -- Imperial neurosis and the dangers of 'humanitarian' interventionism / Yash Tandon -- International financial institutions and Egypt / Adam Hanieh -- Neoliberal threats to North Africa / Patrick Bond -- 2011: an Arab springtime? / Samir Amin -- Libya - the true costs of war / Charles Abugre -- Appendix: Further readings from Pambazuka News.