Civic Agency in Africa

Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also a senior fellow at the New York University School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs, as well as a fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute of Theology. His books include Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria (2016), Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century (2014). DOROTHEA E. SCHULZ is Professor & Department Chair, Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Münster, Germany. Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also a senior fellow at the New York University School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs, as well as a fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute of Theology. His books include Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria (2016), Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century (2014). SABELO J. NDLOVU-GATSHENI is a Professor of History at the University of Calgary, Alberta. SUSAN THOMSON is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University.

• Foreword by Patrick Chabal - Patrick ChabalINTRODUCTION - African resistance in an age of fractured sovereignty PART ONE: POST-COLONIAL STATE FORMATION AND PARALLEL INFRASTRUCTURES - Ebenezer ObadareINTRODUCTION - African resistance in an age of fractured sovereignty PART ONE: POST-COLONIAL STATE FORMATION AND PARALLEL INFRASTRUCTURES - Wendy WillemsGlobal technologies of domination and arts of resistance in Africa: from colonial encounters to the Arab Spring - Sabelo J. Ndlovu-GatsheniCitizenship from below: the politics of citizen action and resistance in South Africa and Angola - PART TWO: EMBODIED MODES OF RESISTANCE AND THE POST-COLONIAL STATE - Bettina von LieresThe politics of confinement and mobility: informality, relocations and urban re-making from below - Ilda LindellThe politics of confinement and mobility: informality, relocations and urban re-making from below - Markus IhalainenOvercoming socio-economic marginalisation: Young West African hustlers and the reinvention of global capitalism - Basile NdijoAccepting authoritarianism? Everyday resistance as political consciousness in post-genocide Rwanda - PART THREE: POPULAR CULTURE AS DISCURSIVE FORMS OF RESISTANCE - Susan ThomsonParticipatory politics in South Africa: social commentary from above and resistance from below - Innocentia Jabulisil MhlambiLaughing at the rainbow's cracks? Blackness, whiteness and the ambivalences of South African stand-up comedy - Grace A. Musila'Beasts of no nation': Resistance and civic activism in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's music - PART FOUR: PUBLICS AS EVERYDAY SITES OF RESISTANCE - Jendele HungboThe power of resonance: Music, local radio stations, and the sounds of cultural belonging in Mali - Dorothea E. SchulzNarrating the contested public sphere: Zapiro, Zuma and freedom of expression in South Africa - Daniel Hammett

In the year of his death, Patrick Chabal . . . wrote the forward to this edited volume, which celebrates the everyday resilience, strength, and global consciousness of the continent's citizenry. His contribution is a testament to the work's scholarly importance as a beacon of interdisciplinary synergy that promotes ongoing dialogue and understanding by paving empirical pathways that lead to the facts about African resistances.