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Through narrating the politics and everyday life in ex-British
Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), Porcupine in a Python's Throat
makes an invaluable contribution to understanding the choices and
constraints facing both Southern Cameroons' (Ambazonia) people, and
the people of Republique du Cameroun. The volume illustrates how
the people of ex-British Southern Cameroons' (Ambazonia) seek
alternatives to the cycles of repression and state terrorism turned
into reprisal, retaliation and a genocidal war from 2016. This
volume challenges the authorities over delimited territories and
their inhabitants in states arbitrarily put together and held
together by external power and control. The editor and contributors
argue that the Westphalian sovereignty of authority as indivisible
in postcolonial and other settings is unworkable, and does not last
very long in plural societies put together and sustained with the
use of force.
Presenting a continent-wide comparative analysis of ethnic,
political, and colonially based insurgencies, this text examines
the causes, tactics, outcomes, and key individuals of African
insurgent events and assesses a range of foreseeable outcomes in
Africa's multiple regions of continuing political instability.
Insurgencies continue to erupt in many nations of Africa. The
techniques and intended purposes of today's insurgencies are
evolutions of historical versions of insurgencies, long-standing
strife among ethnic and political groups, and modern-era movements
reflective of the ever-shrinking planet, leading to revolutions in
the region. This book spans the African continent to address a
diverse classification of insurgencies and revolutions, weaving
them together thematically and enabling readers to make connections
between their purposes, tactics, outcome, and impact. Providing
researchers in African and security studies with a comprehensive
body of work for further studies, this eminently readable work
examines the many past and current insurgencies that have occurred
in Africa, identifying their causes and predominantly common bases
and rationales. Coauthored by an acclaimed scholar of African
studies and a U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel with a master's
degree in national security and strategic studies, this
single-volume book provides an in-depth examination into the
drivers, actors, tactics, weapons, intended outcomes, and sweeping
consequences of the many events in Africa that have overturned
existing rule or implemented rule where none existed—and in a few
cases, resulted in stabilization of a nation. Readers will better
understand the causal, contextual, tactical, ideological, and
philosophical factors that launch insurgencies through coverage of
pre-colonial insurgencies; anti-colonial resistance and national
liberation movements; separatist and irredentist movements;
reformist, revolutionary, and Islamist insurgencies; and genocide,
warlord, and proxy insurgencies. The book's last chapter discusses
how insurgent movements might be prevented through better
governance, or contained or defeated with diplomatic and/or
military means.
Affirmative action remains one of the most divisive issues in
America, remaining unsolved since the 1960s civil rights
legislation. Though many works have attempted to solve the dilemma,
none have tried to identify the underlying causes of the backlash
against the policy. In order to understand affirmative action's
future, one must understand its evolution, its opposition, and its
application both in America and in other nations. In a
multi-disciplinary approach, this book examines affirmative action
from comparative, historical, policy, and sociological
perspectives. Also included is a list of Supreme Court rulings on
affirmative action.
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