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  • The ASA at 60: Advocacy in an Age of Tyranny

  • M. Anne Pitcher
  • Journal:
    African Studies Review / Volume 61 / Issue 3 / September 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 August 2018, pp. 8-26

  • Although the sixtieth anniversary of the ASA’s founding offers an occasion to celebrate the association’s accomplishments, it also coincides with a historical moment of resurgent authoritarianism, growing intolerance, and renascent nativism. Democratic institutions in the United States and abroad are under attack; bigotry, injustice, and incivility have become re-energized. This article reflects on the discourses, spaces, and technologies employed by Africans to contest the multiple expressions of political exclusion on the continent over the last sixty years. It finds inspiration and lessons that might guide us as we develop our own forms of political advocacy in this illiberal age.