1st Edition
African Middle Classes and Social Protest
Introduction: African middle classness, politics and protest: on the context of this issue
Antje Daniel, Henning Melber and Florian Stoll
1. Social protest and the middle class in Ghana: a social movement approach of three cases
Andrea Noll and Jan Budniok
2. The rise of an ‘indocile middle class’ in Cameroon
Gérard Amougou and Geoffrey Pleyers
3. How political is the ‘middle class’ in Kenya?
Dieter Neubert
4. The middle class and suburbia: desegregation towards non-racialism in South Africa?
Roger Southall
5. South Africa’s black middle classes between 2009 and 2018
Jason Musyoka
6. Under pressure: South Africa’s middle classes and the ‘rebellion of the poor’
Marian Burchardt
7. Explorations into middle class urbanites, social movements and political dynamics: impressions from Namibia’s capital, Windhoek
Henning Melber
8. Education and politics: student activism for elite recruitment in Kenya
Anna Deutschmann
Biography
Antje Daniel is Senior Researcher at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and is affiliated with the University of Nuernberg-Erlangen and the Center of Social Change in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Henning Melber is Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa; Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London; and a Resident Associate with the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.
Florian Stoll is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, United States.
