Africa Uprising

Adam Branch is a Fellow at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where he lectures in politics and international studies. He is the author of Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda as well as articles and book chapters on political violence, humanitarian intervention, and international law, largely focused on East Africa.Zachariah Mampilly is director of the programme in Africana studies and associate professor of political science and international studies at Vassar College. From 2012 to 2013 he was a Fulbright visiting professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Dar es Salaam. He is the author of Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War as well as articles and essays on the history and politics of Africa and South Asia.

• Acknowledgments1. Protests and Possibilities2. Mobs or Mobilizers? Nkrumah, Fanon and Anti-Colonial Protest3. A Democratic Transition? Anti-Austerity Protests and the Limits of Reform4. The Third Wave of African protest5. The Precipitous Rise and Fall of Occupy Nigeria6. Political Walking in Uganda7. Protest and Counter-Protest in Ethiopia8. 'We are Fed Up!' Sudan's Unfinished UprisingsConclusion: Africa in a World of ProtestNotesReferencesIndex

An inspiring and thoughtful study of African struggles for indigenous self-liberation, taking protests on their own terms and locating them within the reality of politics in Africa. The authors seek out what is specific to protests in Africa, instead of pursuing models of linear preconceptions of what protests should look like, or predetermined expectations of outcomes.