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Eritrea - A Dream Deferred (Hardcover)
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Eritrea - A Dream Deferred (Hardcover)
Series: Eastern Africa Series
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This book gives a detailed description of Eritrea's post-war
politics and is the first comprehensive analysis of the country's
economy. Eritrean independence under the Eritrean People's
Liberation Front (now the People's Front for Democracy and Justice)
became an international cause celebre during the 1980s. Eritrea was
the first African nation to gain independence in the post-colonial
period and appeared to be opening a new and progressive path in
African politics. But the promise of the revolution was soon
betrayed by the outbreak of war with Ethiopia, the PFDJ's
increasingly repressive domestic policies, its mismanagement of the
country's economy, and its hostile relations with its neighbours.
The PFDJ government dismantled existing formal and informal
institutions, crippled the private sector, banned private
newspapers, civil and political society organisations, expelled
international NGOs and aid agencies when over two-thirds of the
population were dependent on food aid, detained without trial
journalists, thousands of dissidents, and former leaders of the
liberation struggle, and turned national service from an instrument
of nation building and national integration into an instrument of
open-ended forced labour. In this well-researched first account of
post-independence Eritrea, Gaim Kibreab gives a detailed and
critical analysis of how things went woefully wrong and how the
former 'liberators' turned into oppressors with no respect for the
rule of law, human rights andreligious freedom. GAIM KIBREAB is
Professor of Research & Director of Refugee Studies, Department
of Social & Policy Studies, London South Bank University
Published in association with the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
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