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This article focuses on connections between France's May ’68 and political and social movements in Francophone Africa: Guinea, the Congo, Senegal, and Madagascar. As participants challenged their common postcolonial situation, these movements converged around the importance of youth and alliances between students, workers, and "the masses." The article describes the emergence of French and African activist communities defined by a common habitus constituted by shared techniques of protest and responses to repression, academic exchanges, common interests, and reading. The purpose of the article is to examine the circulation of ideas and people through the "long 1968"—from South to North and vice versa—and to situate May '68 within the broad range of expectations that the end of empire both raised and often disappointed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors introduce the journal which examines the role of labor unions in economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s.

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A section of abstracts on political science is presented on topics such as the relationship between ideological orientation and happiness in life, the impact of diamonds in regime changes in Africa, and Latin American presidencies.

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The article reviews several periodicals related to African politics including "African Security Review," the "Journal of Material Culture," and the "Journal of African Economies."