TY - BOOK AU - Obadare,Ebenezer TI - The handbook of civil society in Africa T2 - Nonprofit and civil society studies, SN - 9781461482611 (acidfree paper) AV - JQ1879.A15 H36 2014 U1 - 300.96 23 KW - Civil society KW - Africa KW - Non-governmental organizations KW - Political participation KW - fast KW - Zivilgesellschaft KW - gnd KW - Afrika KW - Aufsatzsammlung N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Turning the table on Gellner : alternative discourses of civil society in Africa; Ebenezer Obadare --; Escape from tyranny : civil society and democratic struggles in Africa; Darren Kew and Modupe Oshikoya --; Civil society and religion; Shobana Shankar --; Theorizing media as/and civil society in Africa; Wendy Willems --; "Good" state, "bad" state : loss and longing in postcolonial Zimbabwe; Julia Gallagher --; NGO accountability in Africa; Ronelle Burger and Dineo Seabe --; Civil society in the Maghreb : lessons from the Arab Spring; James Sater --; Civil society organizations and the state in East Africa : from the colonial to the modern era; Priscilla Wamucii --; Civil society and the politics of belonging in South Africa; Daniel Hammett --; Building civil society in West Africa : notes from the field; Titilope Mamattah --; Imagining civil society in Zimbabwe and "most of the world"; Kirk Helliker --; Viral messaging, satire, and spaces of resistance in Nigeria; Carole Enahoro --; Civil society and conflict in West Africa; Niklas Hultin --; Neoliberalism and the forms of civil society in Kenya and South Africa; Jacob Mwathi Mati --; Africa rising? : Afro-optimism and uncivil society in an era of academic volatility; Patrick Bond --; Civil society and neoliberalism; Usman A. Tar --; Popular organizations in South Africa : from civics to service delivery protests; Elke Zuern --; "If good food is cooked in one country, we will all eat from it" : women and civil society in Africa; Hannah Britton and Taylor Price --; NGOs, civil society, and development; Badru Bukenya and Sam Hickey --; Civil society and sexual struggles in Africa; Ashley Currier and Joƫlle M. Cruz --; Civil society's response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa; Richard G. Wamui --; Orature as a site for civil contestation : film and the decolonization of space and place in Tsisti Dangarembga's Kare Kare Zvako (Mother's Day) 2005; Bunmi Oyinsan --; Civil society and aid in Africa : a case of mistaken identity?; Alan Fowler --; Volunteering, civil service and civil society in Africa; Helen Perold and Lauren Graham --; Philanthropic foundations and civil society in Sub-Saharan Africa; Christiana Lariba Atibil --; Volunteering, civic agency, and citizenship in Africa; Ebenezer Obadare ER -