Table of Contents

1 African awakenings: daring to invent the future Firoze Manji 2 The never-ending revolution: perspectives from the African blogosphere Sokari Ekine 3 Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: History, interests and parallels Explo Nani-Kofi 4 Tunisia: The fall of the West's little dictator Esam al-Amin 5 Gabon's Lords of Poverty Khadija Sharife 6 Tunisia's revolution: Self-organisation for self-emancipation Horace Campbell 7 Au revoir Ben Ali Melakou Tegegn 8 Revolutions without self-proclaimed revolutionaries Horace Campbell 9 Egypt: Free at last, an inside look Hassan Elghayesh 10 An Egyptian protestor's firsthand account Hassan Elghayesh 11 Egypt and the revolution in our minds Nigel C. Gibson 12 Egypt: Women of the revolution Fatma Naib 13 Egypt: How to overthrow a dictator Samir Amin 14 The power is within us: a protest diary from Cameroon Kah Walla 15 Uganda elections: 'An exercise in shame-faced endorsement' J. Oloka-Onyango 16 Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: What impact on women Massan d'Almeida 17 Awakening protests in Morocco and Western Sahara Konstantina Isidoros 18 Popular protests in Burkina Faso Lila Chouli 19 North African dispatches: Why Africa is different Imad Mesdoua 20 Libya: behind the politics of humanitarian intervention Mahmood Mamdani 21 Swazi economy: Time for intensive care Bongani Masuku 22 Swaziland: Uprisings in the slipstream of North Africa Peter Kenworthy 23 The lies behind the West's war on Libya Jean-Paul Pougala 24 South Africa: On the murder of Andries Tatane Richard Pithouse 25 Unrest in Algeria: the window is closing fast Lakhdar Ghettas 26 How might things move forward in Libya? Yash Tandon 27 Tunisian revolution did not come out of nowhere Sadri Khiari 28 An African reflection on Tahir Square Mahmood Mamdani 29 Imperial neuroses and the dangers of humanitarian intervention Yash Tandon 30 Whose dictator is Gaddafi? Yash Tandon 31 International financial institutions and Egypt: An orderly transition Adam Hanieh 32 Chilling the Arab Spring Patrick Bond 33 2011: An Arab Spring? Samir Amin 34 The invasion of Libya was heartless Charles Abugre Appendix: Reports on African Uprisings Index

About the Author

Sokari Ekine is an activist, author of the blog Black Looks and editor of 'SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa', also from Pambazuka Press. Firoze Manji is Editor in Chief of Pambazuka News.