Book Review: African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions

http://insurgentnotes.com/2012/06/book-review-african-awakenings-the-emerging-revolutions/
Date Written:  2012-06-03
Publisher:  Insurgent Notes
Year Published:  2012
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14672

Conspicuously absent from the renewed and resurgent discourse amongst anti-capitalist forces and the popular imagination was sub-Saharan Africa, “black Africa,” the Africa of the eternal cycle of dictators, corruption, famine, “bad governance” and debt. African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions ambitiously sets out to remedy this and place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.