Omotayo Jolaosho (they, them, their[s]) was a cultural anthropologist with a background in performance and integrated arts. An Assistant Professor of Africana Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida, their publications included the transnational anthology African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices. Jolaosho died in 2021.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsActivist Portrait: Ma Patrycja1. Emergence2. RoutinizationActivist Portrait: Kanelo3. EfflorescenceActivist Portrait: Lebo 4. RupturesActivist Portrait: Willeen5. Countermobilization6. RedemptionConclusionEpilogue: WesleyBibliographyIndex

"You Can't Go to War without Song is an exceptional ethnography that is carefully and thoughtfully researched and engagingly written with a keen sensitivity to the relational and power dynamics of post-apartheid mobilization movements in South Africa."—Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Pittsburgh

Omotayo Jolaosho (they, them, their[s]) was a cultural anthropologist with a background in performance and integrated arts. An Assistant Professor of Africana Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida, their publications included the transnational anthology African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices. Jolaosho died in 2021.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsActivist Portrait: Ma Patrycja1. Emergence2. RoutinizationActivist Portrait: Kanelo3. EfflorescenceActivist Portrait: Lebo 4. RupturesActivist Portrait: Willeen5. Countermobilization6. RedemptionConclusionEpilogue: WesleyBibliographyIndex

"You Can't Go to War without Song is an exceptional ethnography that is carefully and thoughtfully researched and engagingly written with a keen sensitivity to the relational and power dynamics of post-apartheid mobilization movements in South Africa."—Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Pittsburgh

Omotayo Jolaosho (they, them, their[s]) was a cultural anthropologist with a background in performance and integrated arts. An Assistant Professor of Africana Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida, their publications included the transnational anthology African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices. Jolaosho died in 2021.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsActivist Portrait: Ma Patrycja1. Emergence2. RoutinizationActivist Portrait: Kanelo3. EfflorescenceActivist Portrait: Lebo 4. RupturesActivist Portrait: Willeen5. Countermobilization6. RedemptionConclusionEpilogue: WesleyBibliographyIndex

"You Can't Go to War without Song is an exceptional ethnography that is carefully and thoughtfully researched and engagingly written with a keen sensitivity to the relational and power dynamics of post-apartheid mobilization movements in South Africa."—Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Pittsburgh