Includes bibliographical references and index.

African awakenings: the courage to invent the future / Firoze Man ji -- The never-ending revolution: perspectives from the African blo gosphere / Sokari Ekine -- Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: history, inte rest and parallels / Explo Nani-Kofi -- Tunisia: the fall of the West's little dictator / Esam Al-Amin -- Gabon's lords of poverty / Khadija Sharife -- Tunisia's revolution: self-organisation for self-emancipation / Horace Campbell -- Aslema ya Tusis, au revoi r Ben Ali / Mekakou Tegegn -- Tunisia and Egypt: revolutions with out self-proclaimed revolutionaries / Horace Campbell -- Egypt: f ree at last, an inside look / Hassan El Ghayesh -- Chronicles of an Egyptian revolution: a protester's first-hand account / Hassan El Gayesh -- Egypt and the revolution in our minds / Nigel C. Gibso n -- Egypt: women of the revolution / Fatma Naib -- 'The power is within us': a protest diary from Cameroon / Kah Walla -- Ugan da elections: 'an exercise in shame-faced endorsement' / J. Oloka-On yango -- Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: the impact on women / Massan d' Almeida -- Awakening protests in Morocco and Western Sahara / Kon stantina Isidoros -- Peoples' revolts in Burkina Faso / Lila Chou li -- North African dispatches: why Algeria is different / Imad M esdoua -- Libya: behind the politics of humanitarian intervention / Mahmood Mamdani -- Swaziland: uprising in the slipstream of Nort h Africa / Peter Kenworthy -- The lies behind the West's war on L ibya / Jean-Paul Pougala -- South Africa: on the murder of Andrie s Tatane / Richard Pithouse -- Unrest in Algeria: the window is c losing fast / Lakhdar Ghettas -- Whose dictator is Gaddafi? / Yash Tandon -- An African reflection on Tahrir Square / Mahmood M amdani -- How might things move forward in Libya? / Yash Tandon - - The Tunisian revolution did not come out of nowhere / Sadri Khi ari & Beatrice Hibou -- Imperial neurosis and the dangers of 'humani tarian' interventionism / Yash Tandon -- International financial institutions and Egypt / Adam Hanieh -- Neoliberal threats to Nor th Africa / Patrick Bond -- 2011: an Arab springtime? / Samir Amin -- Libya - the true costs of war / Charles Abugre -- Appe ndix: Further readings from Pambazuka News.