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Tables of Contents for Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Introducing Political Struggle as Contemporary African Politics
Analyzing Political Struggle
Structure and Struggle
Africa and the Politics of Representation
Further Reading
Peasants, Politics, and the Struggle for Development
Moving Beyond the Prejudices
Conceptualizing the Peasantry
Peasants and Culture
Exit the Peasant, Enter the Smallholder?
Which way Forward?
Peasant-State Relations
Further Reading
The Politics of Debt and Social Struggle
Introduction
The Creation of a Permanent Crisis
The Social Repercussions of Structural Adjustment
Politics and Resistance in the Age of Structural Adjustment
Further Reading
Contesting Democratization
Introduction
Evaluating Change
Democratization and Political Activity
Recognizing the Limits
Structure and Struggle
Western Involvement in Democratization
Further Reading
New African Identities
Introducing Political Identity
Culture, Identity, and Class
Youth, Violence, and Urban Protest
Towards a Resolution of Identity, Class, and Struggle
Further Reading
Political Struggle as History
Mozambique
Late Decolonization
Early Independence
Regional War and Rural Violence
Structural Adjustment and Peace
Writing in Political Struggle
Nigeria
Independence
First Military Period
Second Republic
Second Military Period
Writing in Political Struggle
Burkina Faso
Before Revolution
Revolution
'Rectification' of the Revolution
Writing in Political Struggle
Further Reading
Defending the Idea of Struggle
The Death of Political Struggle?
Political Struggle and Liberation?