African awakening : the emerging revolutions / edited by Firoze Manji and Sokari Ekine. - Cape Town : Pambazuka Press, 2012. - x, 323 p. ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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