Social movements in Africa are considered as the crystallization of group activity autonomous of the state. In the global South, as argued by Horn, social movements are more about structural marginalization and steep social inequalities, with the history of colonialism being a key concern. Social movements in Africa are then not just about opposing the state, but also about redefining the form of that state. They explicitly embrace politics of redistribution alongside calls for the recognition of identities and meanings rendered invisible or suppressed by colonization and its impacts. The result is politics that acknowledge both structural and symbolic marginalization and the need to act on both to achieve justice and ultimately “liberation.”