Africa uprising: Popular protest and political change

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The Undulating Capacity of the State

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Youth disillusionment and the legitimacy crisis of ECOWAS at 50: a region that forgot its future?

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Do Youth Bulges Affect Voting and Protesting? An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

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Reassembling Naija Marxisms: Leftist thought and the socialist movement after 1989 in Nigeria

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Human rights activism after the movement ends: Global lessons from Kenya’s unfinished “revolution”

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The contentious Ghanaian: An historical appraisal of social movements in Ghana

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A Decade of Popular Uprisings in Africa (2011–2021) Lessons Learned for Regional Bodies on Managing Transitions

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Where Do They Go and Why, How Do They Vary and What Is Their Impact: Assessing Leaders’ Campaign Visits in England 2010–2019

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The Legacies of Defeat: UNITA and the Changing Fortunes of Legitimacy in (Post-)War Angola

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Sub-Saharan African Youth Engagement Discourses and the Creation of Spaces in Governance and Policy Making

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The ASA at 60: Advocacy in an Age of Tyranny

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Civil disobedience outside of the liberal democratic framework: The case of Sudan

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COVID 19 PROTEST MOVEMENT AND ITS AFTERMATH EFFECT ON THE NIGERIAN STATE

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The Evolution of Electoral Competition, 1990–2015

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Ushahidi’s Nonviolent Technological Impact in Kenya’s 2008 Post-Election Violence

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Dynamique et diversité des armées africaines

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Africa: Geographies of Change – Edited by RichardGrant, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. 356 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐992056‐3 (paperback).

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Editorial: Trust, participation and pandemic politics in Africa

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Shifting Power Dynamics? The Role of Civil Society Organizations in the Policymaking for Mozambique’s Extractive Sector

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Politiser la ville, contester le régime : espaces publics liminaires et réappropriation de la rue à Khartoum (2009-2018)

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Dos “Revús” ao “Mudei”

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“Erections”: Festive Rioting and Creative Disrespect in Post‐Election Protests in Kibera, an Informal Settlement in Nairobi

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African Climate Futures

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Working Peoples for Political Change: The 2018/2019 Sudanese Uprising

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Strategic Political Metamorphosis? Organised EndSARS Protest and the Online Obidient Movement as Mediated Political Activism Shaping Nigeria’s Deliberative Democracy

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Terrorist assassinations and societal unrest in Africa: a research brief

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Mobilizing for Democracy? Collective Action and Political Power in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Debt

Manjapra, K. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108560580.009 · Cited by 1

Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa

Miller, J. P., Sander, A., & Srinivasan, S. (2022) · Development and Change · doi:10.1111/dech.12734 · Cited by 1

Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms

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Theorie und Praxis (pan-)afrikanischer sozialer Bewegungen

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Disrupting self-censorship, inventing public space through interactive performances in Luanda, Angola

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Rural Radicalism and the Tactic of Third-Party Leverage: How Acholi Peasants Drew a UN Agency into Their Struggle against Land-Grabbing by the Ugandan State

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What Determines the Duration of Protest Events? Evidence from Africa

Lewis, J. S., & Favell, W. (2025) · Government and Opposition · doi:10.1017/gov.2024.37 · Cited by 1

“Politics unusual”? Bobi Wine, People Power, and the ideology of popular opposition in Uganda

Melchiorre, L. (2025) · Democratization · doi:10.1080/13510347.2025.2494742 · Cited by 1

Textual migration in Ebenezer Obey’sjujumusic

Mosobalaje, A. (2018) · African Studies · doi:10.1080/00020184.2018.1430202 · Cited by 1

No Protest, No Choice: Political Mobilizations and Electoral Competitiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Land Reform

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.005 · Cited by 1

The African Voter

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Kampala

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Complex Power on the Margins: The Implications of Dependent Agency

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As time goes by or how far till Banjul: African citizenship aspirations

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Cultural Heritage and Popular Cultures: The Revolution Won't Be Televised And Its Global Reception

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Comunidad Económica de Estados del África Occidental (CEDEAO): Luces y sombras en el 40º aniversario del Protocolo A/P.1/5/79 sobre la libre circulación de personas, residencia y establecimiento

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Introduction

Chaturvedi, R., & von Schnitzler, A. (2019) · Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East · doi:10.1215/1089201x-7493722

The Impact of Elections on Democracy

Bleck, J., & van de Walle, N. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316676936.003

Political Parties and Electoral Competition

Bleck, J., & van de Walle, N. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316676936.004

Do African Elections Matter?

Bleck, J., & van de Walle, N. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316676936.008

Elecciones, poder y antipoder en la República Democrática del Congo (1960-2019): el voto de lo "invisibilizado"

Lugardo, M. A. R. (2020) · Estudios de Asia y África · doi:10.24201/eaa.v55i3.2616

Candidates and Electoral Campaigns

Bleck, J., & van de Walle, N. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316676936.005

Institutional philanthropy and popular organising in Africa : some initial reflections from social movement activists

Mahomed, H. (2020) · International Review of Philanthropy and Social Investment · doi:10.47019/irpsi.2020/v1n1a2

Elite strategies, emphasis frames, and mass perspectives on electoral violence in Kenya

Malik, A., & Onguny, P. O. (2020) · Journal of Contemporary African Studies · doi:10.1080/02589001.2020.1801991

Chapitre 14. Engagement politique populaire dans un Tchad connecté

de Bruijn, M. (2020) · IRD Éditions eBooks · doi:10.4000/books.irdeditions.38362

Future African Generations and Well-Being

Møller, V., & Roberts, B. J. (2021) · Human well-being research and policy making · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65788-8_8

Neoliberalism and the ‘Recolonisation’ of Africa

Spencer, R. (2021) · New comparisons in world literature · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2_2

Performance and Power II: Ahmadou Kourouma’s Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote

Spencer, R. (2021) · New comparisons in world literature · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2_4

Conclusion: The Counter-Counter-Revolution

Spencer, R. (2021) · New comparisons in world literature · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2_6

Allegories of Dictatorship in Nigerian Fiction: Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Spencer, R. (2021) · New comparisons in world literature · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2_5

Introduction: The Unfinished Project of Decolonisation

Spencer, R. (2021) · New comparisons in world literature · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2_1

Introduction: The Global South in a “Compartmentalized World”

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.002

List of Interviews and Focus Groups

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.009

Concluding the Groundwork for a New Political Economy of the Global South

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.011

The Foundations for a New Beginning

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.003

Revolutionary legality and the Burkinabè insurrection

Brett, P. (2021) · The Journal of Modern African Studies · doi:10.1017/s0022278x21000136

The Puzzle of Electoral Continuity

Bleck, J., & van de Walle, N. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316676936.001

Introduction

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.001

Civilians

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.005

Human Capital

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.006

The State

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.006

Context and Initial Conditions

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.003

Preface

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.001

International Trade

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.007

Dataset on Rebel Group Formation in Central and Eastern Africa

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.011

Identifying Ugandan Rebel Groups

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.008

Socialisms

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.009

Africanisms

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.010

References

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.012

Property Economics

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.004

Implications for Scholarship and Policy

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.007

Economic Growth

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.008

Supplementary Statistical Analyses

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.010

Bibliography

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.012

The Rebels

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.004

A Theory of Rebel Group Formation

Lewis, J. I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108855969.002

Social Contracts in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Research Program

Cloutier, M., Harborne, B., Isser, D. H., Santos, I. V., & Watts, M. J. (2022) · World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks · doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1662-8_ch1

Application: Sectoral and Thematic Spotlights

Cloutier, M., Harborne, B., Isser, D. H., Santos, I. V., & Watts, M. J. (2022) · World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks · doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1662-8_ch5

Notes

Manjapra, K. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108560580.013

Space

Manjapra, K. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108560580.010

Index

Obeng‐Odoom, F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108590372.013

Body

Manjapra, K. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108560580.011

Introduction

Manjapra, K. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108560580.002

Preface

Manjapra, K. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108560580.001

Africa uprising: popular protest and political change

Human Sciences Research Council (2026) · Human Science Research Council SA · doi:10.14749/32384739

Political protest in contemporary Africa

Mueller, L. (2018)

Review: Adam Branch and Zachariah Mampilly, Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change (2015)

Joschka Philipps; Centre for African Studies Basel (2015)

Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa

Sanches, E. R. (2022) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781003177371 · Cited by 34

Global Political Destabilization and Modern Civic Protest Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa

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