Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa

by Edalina Rodrigues Sanches

Overview

This book offers a fresh analysis of third wave popular protests in Africa, shedding light on the complex dynamics between political change and continuity in contemporary Africa.

The book argues that protests are simultaneously products and generators of change in that they are triggered by micro-and-macrosocial changes, but they also have the capacity to transform the nature of politics. By examining the triggers, actors, political opportunities, resources and framing strategies, the contributors shed light onto tangible (e.g. policy implementation, liberal reforms, political alternation) and intangible (e.g. perceptions, imagination, awareness) forms of change elicited by protests. It reveals the relevant role of African protests as engines of democracy, accountability and collective knowledge.

Bringing popular protests in authoritarian and democratic settings into discussion, this book will be of interest to scholars of African politics, democracy and protest movements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000569100
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/15/2022
Series:	Routledge Contemporary Africa
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	781,889
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Edalina Rodrigues Sanches is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Zooming in on protest and change in Africa

Edalina Rodrigues Sanches　

Chapter 2.　Shaking up democracy from below: Protest and change in Cabo Verde

Edalina Rodrigues Sanches and José Lopes

Chapter 3. Popular protest, resources and political opportunities in Ghana: Contextualising the case of occupy Ghana

Andrea Nollan and Jan Budniok

Chapter 4. Y’en a marre: catalyst for an indocility grammar in Senegal

Mamadou Dimé

Chapter 5. Nothing will be as before? The 2014 Insurrection in Burkina Faso and its political impact

Eloïse Bertrand

Chapter 6. Feminist demands, opportunities, and frames: strategic silencing within Morocco’s February 20 Movement?

Sammy Zeyad Badran

Chapter 7. Social movements　in rural Africa: How and why the Mozambican state closed the Prosavana program

Luca Bussotti and Laura António Nhaueleque

Chapter 8. ‘We got a taste for protest!’　Leadership transition and political opportunities for protest in Angola’s resilient authoritarian regime

Cláudia Generoso de Almeida, Ana Lúcia Sá and Paulo C. J. Faria

Chapter 9. How the January 2015 protests influenced Joseph Kabila’s strategy of ‘Glissement’

François Polet

Chapter 10. From voting to walking: the 2011 walk-to-work protest movement in Uganda

Michael Mutyaba

Chapter 11. Anatomies of protest and the trajectories of the actors at play: Ethiopia 2015-2018

Alexandra Magnólia Dias and Yared Debebe Yetena

Chapter 12. Pro-Democracy Protests in the Kingdom of Eswatini 2018-2019

Maxwell Vusumuzi Mthembu

Chapter 13. Conclusion: Comparative implications and new directions

Edalina Rodrigues Sanches