Dissent, Protest and Dispute in Africa

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Emmanuel M. Mbah is Associate Professor of History and Director of Africa and African Diaspora Studies at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, USA.

1. Introduction: Dissent, Protest and Dispute Africa

2. The Music of Heaven, the Music of Earth, and the Music of Brats: Tuareg Islam, the Devil, and Musical Performance

3. Finding Social Change Backstage and Behind the Scenes in South African Theatre

4. Soccer and Political (Ex)pression in Africa: The Case of Cameroon

5. "Child Labor Resistance in Southern Nigeria, 1916 – 1938"

6. M’Fam Goes Home: African Soldiers in the Gabon Campaign of 1940

7. "Disgraceful Disturbances": TANU, the Tanganyikan Rifles, and the 1964 Mutiny

8. The Role of Ethnicity in Political Formation in Kenya: 1963-2007

9. Land, Boundaries, Chiefs and Wars

10. Borders and boundaries within Ethiopia: dilemmas of group identity, representation and agency

11. Rural Agrarian Land Conflicts in Postcolonial Nigeria’s Central Region

12. The Evolution of the Mungiki Militia in Kenya, 1990 to 2010

13. Refugee-Warriors and Other People’s Wars in Post-Colonial Africa: The Experience of Rwandese and South African Military Exiles (1960-94)

14. Oiling the Guns and Gunning for Oil: The Youth and Niger Delta Oil Conflicts in Nigeria