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Why Comrades Go to War - Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict (Hardcover)
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Why Comrades Go to War - Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict (Hardcover)
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In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed
youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of
Zaire/Congo since 1965. The rebels of the AFDL marched over 1500km
in seven months to crush the dictatorship, heralding liberation as
a second independence for Central Africa as a whole. US President
Bill Clinton toasted AFDL leader Laurent-Desire Kabila and his
regional allies - having developed a unique camaraderie and
personal trust on the region's battlefronts -- as a 'new generation
of African leaders' ushering in an 'African Renaissance.' Within
months, however, the Pan-Africanist alliance fell apart. The AFDL's
collapse triggered a cataclysmic fratricide between the heroes of
liberationthat became the deadliest conflict since the Second World
War, drawing in eight African countries. This book draws on
hundreds of interviews with protagonists from Africa and the
international community to offer a novel theoretical and empirical
account of Africa's Great War. Bridging the gap between comparative
politics and international relations, it argues that the renewed
outbreak of calamitous violence in August 1998 was a function of
the kind of regime the AFDL was and how its leaders saw Congo,
theregion and themselves. As a Pan-Africanist liberation movement,
the collapse of the AFDL government internally and the unravelling
of regional order externally were inextricably linked.
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