TY - BOOK AU - Ellis, Stephen, AU - Kessel, Ineke van. TI - Movers and shakers: social movements in Africa T2 - African dynamics SN - 9789004180130 (pbk.) U1 - 303.484 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Social movements N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-253); Introduction : African social movements or social movements in Afric a? / Stephen Ellis & Ineke van Kessel -- Social movement theory : past, presence & prospects / Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans -- Speaking to global debates through a national and continental lens : South African and African social movements in comparative perspective / Adam Habib & Paul Opoku-Mensah -- African civil society, 'blood diamo nds' and the Kimberley process / Lansana Gberie -- The Islamic courts u nion : the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement / Jon Abbink -- L iberia's women acting for peace : collective action in a war-affected c ountry / Veronika Fuest -- Nurtured from the pulpit : the emergence and growth of Malawi's democracy movement / Boniface Dulani -- Bare-foot a ctivists : transformations in the haratine movement in Mauritania / Zek eria Ould Ahmed Salem -- An Islamic social movement in contemporary Wes t Africa : NASFAT of Nigeria / Benjamin Soares -- The United Democratic Front's legacy in South Africa : mission accomplished or vision betray ed? / Ineke van Kessel -- 'Campus cults' in Nigeria : the development o f an anti-social movement / Stephen Ellis ER -