Firoze Manji is head of CODESRIA's Documentation and Informa- tion Centre. He is the founder and former editor in chief of Pambazu- ka News (www.pambazuka.org) and Pambazuka Press/Fahamu Books (www.fahamubooks.org), and founder and former executive director of Fahamu, Networks for Social Justice (www.fahamu.org). Amongst other books, he coedited African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions (Pambazuka Press, 2011) with Sokari Ekine. He is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, DC, visiting fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, and board member of