Peter Dwyer & Leo Zeilig 
African Struggles Today [EPUB ebook] 
Social Movements Since Independence

• Chapter One–Introduction
  


• Chapter Two–Social movements and the working class in Africa
  


• Chapter Three–An epoch of uprisings: Social movements in post-colonial Africa, 1945-1998
  


• Chapter Four–South African social movements
  


• Chapter Five–Social movements after the transition: Choiceless Democracies?
  


• Chapter Six–Frustrated transitions: social movements, protest and repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Swaziland
  


• Chapter Seven–Social Forums and the World Social Forum in Africa
  


• Chapter Eight–Conclusion
  


• Bibliography
  

Peter Dwyer: Peter Dwyer is a tutor in economics at Ruskin College in Oxford. As a lifelong trade union member, he has been involved as a researcher and campaigner in a variety of social movement campaigns in both in the UK and South Africa. He has written extensively on political change in South Africa.

Dr Leo Zeilig is a lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He has written widely on student movements and radical politics in Africa. He is the author of
Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in sub-Saharan Africa I.B. Tauris (London & New York, 2007) and
Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa (Haymarket Books, 2008).