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The African renaissance and the Afro-Arab spring : a season of rebirth? /

The hope and despair surrounding the Afro-Arab Spring in North Africa has only begun to be played out in regional and global politics. And the call for an African renaissance that followed the miraculous political transition in South Africa is, twenty years later, viewed with similar ambiguity. What...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Villa-Vicencio, Charles (Editor), Doxtader, Erik (Editor), Moosa, Ebrahim (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : the Arab reawakening: an Africa renaissance perspective / Thabo Mbeki
  • Introduction : beginning again? : the question of a continent
  • From Cairo to the Cape : the dilemmas of revolution
  • Shamil Jeppie
  • Gathering the pieces : the structural, social, and psychological elements of African renewal / Don Foster
  • Understanding a flawed miracle : the history, dynamics, and continental implications of South Africa's transition
  • Charles Villa-Vicencio
  • Irreconcilable truths : gender-based violence and the struggle to build an inclusive history
  • Helen Scanlon
  • Tunisia : a successful revolution? / Ibrahim Sharqieh
  • Is there a centre to hold? : the problem of transition-building in Libya / Asif Majid
  • Egypt : the pharaoh returns : the "politics of order" and the Muslim yearning for freedom / Ebrahim Rasool
  • Political theology in the aftermath of the Arab spring / Ebrahim Moosa
  • The one and the many : religious coexistence and belonging in post-apartheid society / Abdulkader Tayob
  • A popular revolution? : gender inequality and political change in North Africa / Katherine Marshall
  • A "new" pan-africanism / Chris Landsberg
  • The potential of an African assertion : once more, in the name of a renaissance / Erik Doxtader
  • Appendices
  • Timeline of African independence
  • Arab spring timeline
  • Pan-africanism: select agreements and initiatives.