Warfare in African History

Warfare in African History
Title Warfare in African History PDF eBook
Author Richard J. Reid
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 211
Release 2012-04-16
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0521195101

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This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy by tracing shifts in the culture and practice of war.

Foreign Intervention in Africa

Foreign Intervention in Africa
Title Foreign Intervention in Africa PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Schmidt
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 289
Release 2013-03-25
Genre History
ISBN 0521882389

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This book chronicles foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, helping readers understand the historical roots of Africa's problems.

Warfare in Independent Africa

Warfare in Independent Africa
Title Warfare in Independent Africa PDF eBook
Author William Reno
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 295
Release 2011-06-13
Genre History
ISBN 1139498657

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This book surveys the history of armed conflict in Africa in the period since decolonization and independence. The number of post-independence conflicts in Africa has been considerable, and this book introduces to readers a comprehensive analysis of their causes and character. Tracing the evolution of warfare from anti-colonial and anti-apartheid campaigns to complex conflicts in which factionalized armies, militias and rebel groups fight with each other and prey upon non-combatants, it allows the readers a new perspective to understand violence on the continent. The book is written to appeal not only to students of history and African politics, but also to experts in the policy community, the military and humanitarian agencies.

Soldiers in Revolt

Soldiers in Revolt
Title Soldiers in Revolt PDF eBook
Author Maggie Dwyer
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 251
Release 2018-02-01
Genre History
ISBN 0190911654

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Soldiers in Revolt examines the understudied phenomenon of military mutinies in Africa. Through interviews with former mutineers in Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia, the book provides a unique and intimate perspective on those who take the risky decision to revolt. This view from the lower ranks is key to comprehending the internal struggles that can threaten a military's ability to function effectively. Maggie Dwyer's detailed accounts of specific revolts are complemented by an original dataset of West African mutinies covering more than fifty years, allowing for the identification of trends. Her book shows the complex ways mutineers often formulate and interpret their grievances against a backdrop of domestic and global politics. Just as mutineers have been influenced by the political landscape, so too have they shaped it. Mutinies have challenged political and military leaders, spurred social unrest, led to civilian casualties, threatened peacekeeping efforts and, in extreme cases, resulted in international interventions. Soldiers in Revolt offers a better understanding of West African mutinies and mutinies in general, valuable not only for military studies but for anyone interested in the complex dynamics of African states.

Africa Since 1800

Africa Since 1800
Title Africa Since 1800 PDF eBook
Author Roland Oliver
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 340
Release 1977-09-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780521292405

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Herder Warfare in East Africa

Herder Warfare in East Africa
Title Herder Warfare in East Africa PDF eBook
Author Gufu Oba
Publisher
Pages 368
Release 2017-05-15
Genre Nature
ISBN 9781874267966

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Presents a regional analysis of the spatial and social history of warfare among nomadic peoples of East Africa, over 600 years. Discusses herder warfare from the perspective of warfare ecology, highlighting interrelations between environmental and cultural causalities - droughts, famine, floods, ritual wars, religious wars and migrations - and war

Narrating War and Peace in Africa

Narrating War and Peace in Africa
Title Narrating War and Peace in Africa PDF eBook
Author Solimar Otero
Publisher University Rochester Press
Pages 344
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 1580463304

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Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives -- across disciplinary boundaries -- that foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. Through their geographical, historical, and cultural scope and diversity, the chapters in Narrating War and Peace in Africa aim to challenge negative stereotypes that abound in relation to Africa in general and to its wars and conflicts in particular, encouraging a shift to more balanced and nuanced representations of the continent and its political and social climates. Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.