Introduction / Robert I. Rotberg

I. Resistance to conquest

The Moorosi Rebellion : Lesotho, 1879 / Anthony Atmore

Resistance to the German invasion of the Tanganyikan coast, 1888-1891 / Robert D. Jackson

Samori and resistance to the French / Yves Person

Adwa 1896 : the resounding protest / Sven Rubenson

II. Rebellions against alien rule

The Sudanese Mahdiya / L. Carl Brown

Bai Bureh and the Sierra Leone Hut Tax War of 1898 / LaRay Denzer and Michael Crowder

The Zulu disturbances in Natal / Shula Marks

The Nyabingi cult of southwestern Uganda / Elizabeth Hopkins

Psychological stress and the question of identity : Chilembwe's revolt reconsidered / Robert I. Rotberg

III. The religious expression of discontent

The Gusii rebels / Audrey Wipper

The affirmation of things past : Alar Ayong and Bwiti as movements of protest in central and northern Gabon / James W. Fernandez

Religious protest and social change : the origins of the Aladura movement in western Nigeria / Robert Cameron Mitchell

A West African Islamic movement : Hamallism in French West Africa / Pierre Alexandre

The Lumpa Church of Alice Lenshina / Andrew D. Roberts

IV. The emergence of pressure groups and political parties

The National Congress of British West Africa, 1918-1935 / Martin Kilson

Political associations in western Kenya / J.M. Lonsdale

The emergence of the Tanganyika African National Union in the Lake Province / Andrew Maguire

The Union des Populations du Cameroun in rebellion : the integrative backlash of insurgency / Willard Johnson

V. The economic expression of discontent

Trade union, political pressure group, or mass movement? The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa / Sheridan W. Johns, III

The Bugandan trade boycott : a study in tribal, political, and economic nationalism / Dharam P. Ghai

Nigerian politics and the general strike of 1964 / Robert Melson

Nonviolence revisited / Leo Kuper

VI. The literary expression of protest

Literary protest in French-speaking Africa / Gerald Moore

Political protest in the African novel in English / John Povey

An early Angolan protest : the radical journalism of Jose de Fontes Pereira (1823-1891) / Douglas L. Wheeler

VII. Revolutions, coups, and readjustments in the post-independence era

The coup in Rwanda / Rene Lemarchand

The Zanzibari Revolution : African protest in a racially plural society / Michael F. Lofchie

Rebellion and the Congo / M. Crawford Young

The fragility of stability : the fall of the Nigerian federal government, 1966 / James O'Connell

The coups in Upper Volta, Dahomey, and the Central African Republic / Victor T. Le Vine

Privilege and protest as integrative factors : the case of Buganda's status in Uganda / Ali A. Mazrui

Kumanyana and Rwenzururu : two responses to ethnic inequality / Martin R. Doornbos

VIII. Sovereignty and diplomacy in post-independence Africa

Socialism as a mode of international protest : the case of Tanzania / Ali A. Mazrui

The Organization of African Unity as an instrument and forum of protest / Yashpal Tandon

Postlude: Toward a theory of protest / Ali A. Mazrui.