Branch Adam - Africa uprising : popular protest and political change

African Arguments

African Arguments is a series of short books about Africa today. Aimed at the growing number of students and general readers who want to know more about the African continent, these books highlight many of the longer-term strategic as well as immediate political issues. They will get to the heart of why Africa is the way it is and how it is changing. The books are scholarly but engaged, substantive as well as topical.

Series editors

RICHARD DOWDEN , Royal African Society

ALEX DE WAAL , World Peace Foundation, Fletcher School, Tufts University

ALCINDA HONWANA , Open University

Editorial board

EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG , Harvard University

TIM ALLEN , London School of Economics and Political Science

AKWE AMOSU , Open Society Institute

BREYTEN BREYTENBACH , Gore Institute

PETER DA COSTA , journalist and development specialist

WILLIAM GUMEDE , journalist and author

ABDUL MOHAMMED , InterAfrica Group

ROBERT MOLTENO , editor and publisher

Titles already published

Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power: Why There is No Political Crisis Yet

Tim Allen, Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lords Resistance Army

Raymond W. Copson, The United States in Africa

Chris Alden, China in Africa

Tom Porteous, Britain in Africa

Julie Flint and Alex de Waal, Darfur: A New History of a Long War

Jonathan Glennie, The Trouble with Aid: Why Less Could Mean More for Africa

Peter Uvin, Life after Violence: A Peoples Story of Burundi

Bronwen Manby, Struggles for Citizenship in Africa

Camilla Toulmin, Climate Change in Africa

Orla Ryan, Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa

Theodore Trefon, Congo Masquerade: The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure

Lonce Ndikumana and James Boyce, Africas Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent

Mary Harper, Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State

Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig, Africa and the War on Drugs

Alcinda Honwana, Youth and Revolution in Tunisia

Marc Epprecht, Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa: Rethinking Homosexuality and Forging Resistance

Lorenzo Cotula, The Great African Land Grab? Agricultural Investments and the Global Food System

Michael Deibert, The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair

Forthcoming

Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong

Celeste Hicks, Africas New Oil: Power, Pipelines and Future Fortunes

Keith Breckenridge, Mining, Power and Politics in South Africa: Rethinking the African Resource Curse

Published by Zed Books and the IAI with the support of the following organizations:

International African Institute The International African Institutes principal aim is to promote scholarly understanding of Africa, notably its changing societies, cultures and languages. Founded in 1926 and based in London, it supports a range of seminars and publications including the journal Africa .

www.internationalafricaninstitute.org

Royal African Society Now more than a hundred years old, the Royal African Society today is Britains leading organization promoting Africas cause. Through its journal, African Affairs , and by organizing meetings, discussions and other activities, the society strengthens links between Africa and Britain and encourages understanding of Africa and its relations with the rest of the world.

www.royalafricansociety.org

The World Peace Foundation , founded in 1910, is located at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. The Foundations mission is to promote innovative research and teaching, believing that these are critical to the challenges of making peace around the world, and should go hand in hand with advocacy and practical engagement with the toughest issues. Its central theme is reinventing peace for the twenty-first century.

www.worldpeacefoundation.org

About the authors

Adam Branch is associate professor of political science at San Diego State University. From 2011 to 2014 he was research fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala. He is the author of Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda as well as articles and book chapters on political violence, humanitarian intervention, and international law, largely focused on East Africa.

Zachariah Mampilly is director of the programme in Africana studies and associate professor of political science and international studies at Vassar College. From 2012 to 2013 he was a Fulbright visiting professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Dar es Salaam. He is the author of Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War as well as articles and essays on the history and politics of Africa and South Asia.

ADAM BRANCH AND
ZACHARIAH MAMPILLY

Africa uprising

Popular protest and political change

Zed Books

LONDON

Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change was first published in 2015 by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF , UK

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