As anyone who lived through that decade knows, the 1980s in South Africa were marked by protest, violent confrontation, and international sanctions. Internally, the country saw a bewildering growth of
Historians and social scientists--Europeans and American who have done field work in Africa--address the political and conflict-generating potential of youth and generational conflict in Africa, and d
This collection of empirical and theoretical studies of social movements in Africa is a corrective to a literature that has largely ignored that continent. It shows that Africa’s social movements have