Zachariah Mampilly
(Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor,
Vassar College
) will talk about his upcoming book.
For a long time now,
Africa's
political landscape has been wracked by violence. In recent years, however, a more positive force has risen in response to that violence: popular protest. Countries throughout the continent, from Tunisia and Egypt to Uganda and Senegal, have witnessed uprisings by a wide variety of people—the young, the unemployed, organized laborers, civil society activists, writers, artists, and religious groups. What is driving this massive wave of popular protest in Africa?
