Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Sam Kniknie and Karen Büscher -- Copyright page / Sam Kniknie and Karen Büscher -- Notes on Contributors / Sam Kniknie and Karen Büscher -- List of Figures and Tables / Sam Kniknie and Karen Büscher -- Chapter 1 Rebellious Riots: Entangled Geographies of Contention in Africa / Sam Kniknie and Karen Büscher -- Chapter 2 Geographies of Armed Conflict and Protest in Africa, 1997–2019 / Nicholas Dorward and Sean Fox -- Chapter 3 Machines of Violence and War: Repertoires of Mobilization for Urban Riots and Rural Armed Insurgency in Niger / Florian Köhler and Jannik Schritt -- Chapter 4 Civilian Protest and Competitive State-building in Rebel-held Côte d’Ivoire / Sebastian van Baalen -- Chapter 5 (Re)claiming Finfinne? Violent Protest and the Right to Addis Ababa / Camille Pellerin and Emma Elfversson -- Chapter 6 Interconnections between War, Armed Conflict and Demonstrations in the Peri-urban Towns of Baraka and Uvira in DR Congo / Elisée Cirhuza Balolage and Parfait Kaningu Bushenyula -- Chapter 7 From ‘Goma veut de l’eau’ to ‘Kabila doit partir’: Perspectives on Youth, Urban Protest and Armed Conflict in Goma, Eastern DR Congo / Silke Oldenburg and Wassy Kambale -- Chapter 8 Rebels of War and Peace: Street Gangs and Social Resistance in Sierra Leone / Kieran Mitton -- Index / Sam Kniknie and Karen Büscher.

Is violent conflict in Africa urbanizing? How do urban protests and civil war intersect? How do narratives, mechanisms and identities of contention move between urban and rural arenas? These questions constitute the basis of investigation and analysis of this unique cross-disciplinary volume. Applying diverging perspectives and methods from political science, anthropology and urban African studies, the book carefully constructs the relational and entangled nature of contemporary forms of contentious politics in Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia.

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