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This book employs the event of the Arab Spring revolution of 2011 to reflect on the event itself and beyond. Some of the chapters address the colonial encounter and its lingering reverberations on the African sociopolitical landscape. Others address the aftermath of large scale societal violence and trauma that pervade the African context. The contributions indicate the range of challenges confronting African societies in the postmodern era. They also illustrate the sheer resilience and inventiveness of those societies in the face of apparently overwhelming odds. What is the nature of political power in contemporary Africa as constituted from below instead of being a state driven phenomenon? What constitutes sovereignty without recourse to the usual academic responses and discourses? These two questions loom behind most of the deliberations contained in this book with contributions from an impressive field of international scholars.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: social contract in Africa
• Author: Sanya Osha
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780798304443
• ISBN: 9780798304443
• ID: 07408141
• Publisher: Africa Institute of South Africa
• Weight: 348 g
• Dimensions: 245 × 172 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2014

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