Introduction: Dissent, protest and dispute Africa / Emmanuel M. Mbah and Toyin Falola
The music of heaven, the music of Earth, and the music of brats: Tuareg Islam, the Devil, and musical performance / Susan J. Rasmussen
Finding social change backstage and behind the scenes in South African theatre / Nathanael Vlachos
Soccer and political (ex)pression in Africa: the case of Cameroon / Alain Lawo-Sukam
Child labor resistance in southern Nigeria, 1916-1938 / Adam Paddock
M'Fain goes home: African soldiers in the Gabon campaign of 1940 / Mark Reeves
"Disgraceful disturbances": TANU, the Tanganyikan Rifles, and the 1964 mutiny / Charles Thomas
The role of ethnicity in political formation in Kenya: 1963-2007 / Tade O. Okediji and Wahutu J. Siguru
Land, boundaries, chiefs and wars / Toyin Falola
Borders and boundaries within Ethiopia: dilemmas of group identity, representation and agency / Alexander Meckelburg
Rural agrarian land conflicts in postcolonial Nigeria's central region / Sati Fwatshak
The evolution of the Mungiki militia in Kenya, 1990 to 2010 / Felix Kiruthu
Refugee-warriors and other people's wars in post-colonial Africa: the experience of Rwandese and South African military exiles (1960-94) / Tim Stapleton
Oiling the guns and gunning for oil: the youth and Niger Delta oil conflicts in Nigeria / Christian C. Madubuko.