Rethinking burgeoning political consciousness: Student activists, the class of 99 and political intent in Sierra Leone

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 349-369

  Bolten, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICS; POPULAR PROTEST; STUDENT; VIOLENCE;

SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 72649099135     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X09003966     Document Type: Article

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