The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and a symposium on student representation in African higher education governance. The book includes theoretical chapters on student organising, student activism and representation; chapters on historical and current developments in student politics in Anglophone and Francophone Africa; and in-depth case studies on student representation and activism in a cross-section of universities and countries. The book provides a unique resource for academics, university leaders and student affairs professionals as well as student leaders and policy-makers in Africa and elsewhere.

TABLE OF CONTENTS : Introduction -- Chapter 1: Politics, students and protest -- Chapter 2: Student activism, structural adjustment and the 'democratic transition' -- Chapter 3: Researching students -- Chapter 4: Reform, revolt and student activism in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 5: Political Change and student resistance in Senegal -- Chapter 6: The meaning of student protest in the democratic transition -- Conclusion: The return of the student-intelligentsia.

Etude du rôle joué par les étudiants africains dans les politiques nationales : Le cas de la Côte d'Ivoire, la Rhodésie, l'Ouganda, le Ghana, la Tanzanie, le Kenya. Attitudes et aspirations des étudiants.

Argues that the historical primacy of youth politics in Limpopo, South Africa has influenced the production of generations of nationally prominent youth and student activists - among them Julius Malema, Onkgopotse Tiro, Cyril Ramaphosa, Frank Chikane, and Peter Mokaba.

Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid examines two black national student political organisations - the South African National Students' Congress (SANSCO) and the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), popularly associated with Black Consciousness. It analyses the ideologies, politics and organisation of SASO and SANSCO and their intellectual, political and social determinants. It also analyses their role in the educational, political and social spheres, and the factors that shaped their activities. Finally, it assesses their contributions to the popular struggle against apartheid education as well as against race, class and gender oppression.