Campaign rallies and political meaning-making

Acknowledgements Thanks go to editors Nicola de Jager and especially Andrew Wyatt for working with us to develop this special issue. Thanks for Michael Saward and Justin Willis for their comments on previous drafts of this paper. Thanks go to all of the contributors to this special issue. Thanks to our anonymous reviewers. Thanks to Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, BIEA, Gilchrist Educational Trust, FCDO and the ESRC (ES/L002345/1and ES/L002108/1) which all contributed to the research behind this article. Thanks to those who attended and gave feedback on these and associated papers at the panels on rallies convened at the African Studies Association (USA) Annual Meetings in Chicago, 2017, and Boston, 2019, the European Conference on African Studies, 2019 and the Political Science Association (UK) Media and Politics Conference, 2019. Thanks, most of all, to all of those in the sites of our research who enabled our research through their insights, assistance, generosity and hospitality. Any errors are ours alone.Peer reviewedPublisher PD