Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Foreword xii
5. Acknowledgements xix
6. 1 Introduction. African Resistance in an Age of Fractured Sovereignty 1
7. Part I POSTCOLONIAL STATE FORMATION & PARALLEL INFRASTRUCTURES
8. 2 Global Technologies of Domination. From Colonial Encounters to the Arab Spring 27
9. 3 Citizenship from Below. The Politics of Citizen Action & Resistance in South Africa & Angola 49
10. Part II EMBODIED MODES OF RESISTANCE & THE POSTCOLONIAL STATE
11. 4 The Politics of Confinement & Mobility. Informality, Relocations & Urban Re-making from Above & Below in Nairobi 65
12. 5 Overcoming Socio-Economic Marginalisation. Young West African Hustlers & the Reinvention of Global Capitalism 85
13. 6 Accepting Authoritarianism? Everyday Resistance as Political Consciousness in Post-Genocide Rwanda 104
14. Part III POPULAR CULTURE AS DISCURSIVE FORMS OF RESISTANCE
15. 7 Participatory Politics in South Africa. Social Commentary from Above & Resistance from Below 127
16. 8 Laughing at the Rainbow’s Cracks? Blackness,Whiteness & the Ambivalences of South African Stand-Up Comedy 147
17. 9 ‘Beasts of No Nation’. Resistance & Civic Activism in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Music 167
18. Part IV PUBLICS AS EVERYDAY SITES OF RESISTANCE
19. 10 The Power of Resonance. Music, Local Radio Stations & the Sounds of Cultural Belonging in Mali 185
20. 11 Narrating the Contested Public Sphere. Zapiro, Zuma & Freedom of Expression in South Africa 204
21. Index 226