Download or read book Dissent, Protest and Dispute in Africa written by Toyin Falola and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction: dissent, protest and dispute Africa -- Part I Protest and dissent in 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, 1916-38 -- 6 M'Fam goes home: African soldiers in the Gabon Campaign of 1940 -- 7 "Disgraceful disturbances": TANU, the Tanganyikan Rifles, and the 1964 Mutiny -- Part II Ethnic/land and other disputes in Africa -- 8 The role of ethnicity in political formation in Kenya: 1963-2007 -- 9 Land, boundaries, chiefs and wars in Nigeria -- 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 -- Index