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Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa - The Struggles of Emerging States (Hardcover)
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Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa - The Struggles of Emerging States (Hardcover)
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Over the fifty years between 1940 and 1990, the countries of
eastern Africa were embroiled in a range of debilitating and
destructive conflicts, starting with the wars of independence, but
then incorporating rebellion, secession and local insurrection as
the Cold War replaced colonialism. The articles gathered here
illustrate how significant, widespread, and dramatic this violence
was. In these years, violence was used as a principal instrument in
the creation and consolidation of the authority of the state; and
it was also regularly and readily utilised by those who wished to
challenge state authority through insurrection and secession. Why
was it that eastern Africa should have experienced such extensive
and intensive violence in the fifty years before 1990? Was this
resort to violence a consequence of imperial rule, the legacy of
oppressive colonial domination under a coercive and
non-representative state system? Did essential contingencies such
as the Cold War provoke and promote the use of violence? Or, was it
a choice made by Africans themselves and their leaders, a product
of their own agency? This book focuses on these turbulent decades,
exploring the principal conflicts in six key countries - Kenya,
Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Tanzania. This book was
published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African
Studies.
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