Movers and shakers  social movements in Africa /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Stephen Ellis, Ineke van Kessel. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  c2009. 
 - vii, 257 p. 
 - African dynamics,  8  1568-1777 ; .
 - African dynamics ;  8. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-253). 
<br/><br/>Introduction : African social movements or social movements in Africa? / Stephen Ellis & Ineke van Kessel -- Social movement theory : past, presence & prospects / Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans -- Speaking to global debates through a national and continental lens : South African and African social movements in comparative perspective / Adam Habib & Paul Opoku-Mensah -- African civil society, 'blood diamonds' and the Kimberley process / Lansana Gberie -- The Islamic courts union : the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement / Jon Abbink -- Liberia's women acting for peace : collective action in a war-affected country / Veronika Fuest -- Nurtured from the pulpit : the emergence and growth of Malawi's democracy movement / Boniface Dulani -- Bare-foot activists : transformations in the haratine movement in Mauritania / Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem -- An Islamic social movement in contemporary West Africa : NASFAT of Nigeria / Benjamin Soares -- The United Democratic Front's legacy in South Africa : mission accomplished or vision betrayed? / Ineke van Kessel -- 'Campus cults' in Nigeria : the development of an anti-social movement / Stephen Ellis. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social movements--History--Africa--20th century.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM881  / .M68 2009eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.48/40960904