AD, Volume 37, n° 1, 2012 - Full Issue

Abstract

Selected papers from the 12th CODESRIA General Assembly 

Contents

Introduction – The ‘Missing’ Concept: What is the ‘Public Sphere’ Good for?

Abdul Raufu Mustapha ..................... 1

Interrogating Public Sphere and Popular Culture as Theoretical Concepts on their Value in African Studies

Wendy Willems ................................... 11

The Public Sphere in 21 Century Africa: Broadening the Horizons of Democratisation

Abdul Raufu Mustapha ......................... 27

Public Sphere and Epistemologies of the South

Boaventura de Sousa Santos ............ 43

The Emergence of Public Spheres in Colonial Cameroon: Palm Wine Drinking Joints in Bamenda Township

Nicodemus Fru Awasom .................. 69

Ambivalence and Activism: Netizens, Social Transformation and African Virtual Publics

Yunusa Z. Ya’u ................................... 85

The Internet as Public Sphere: A Zimbabwean Case Study (1999-2008)

Kudakwashe Manganga ................... 103