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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.
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.
South Sudan is the world's youngest independent country.
Established in 2011 after two wars, South Sudan has since reverted
to a state of devastating civil strife. This book provides a
general history of the new country, from the arrival of
Turco-Egyptian explorers in Upper Nile, the turbulence of the
Mahdist revolutionary period, the chaos of the 'Scramble for
Africa', during which the South was prey to European and African
adventurers and empire builders, to the Anglo-Egyptian colonial
era. Special attention is paid to the period since Sudanese
independence in 1956, when Southern disaffection grew into outright
war, from the 1960s to 1972, and from 1983 until the Comprehensive
Peace of 2005, and to the transition to South Sudan's independence.
The book concludes with coverage of events since then, which since
December 2013 have assumed the character of civil war, and with
insights into what the future might hold.
South Sudan is the world's youngest independent country.
Established in 2011 after two wars, South Sudan has since reverted
to a state of devastating civil strife. This book provides a
general history of the new country, from the arrival of
Turco-Egyptian explorers in Upper Nile, the turbulence of the
Mahdist revolutionary period, the chaos of the 'Scramble for
Africa', during which the South was prey to European and African
adventurers and empire builders, to the Anglo-Egyptian colonial
era. Special attention is paid to the period since Sudanese
independence in 1956, when Southern disaffection grew into outright
war, from the 1960s to 1972, and from 1983 until the Comprehensive
Peace of 2005, and to the transition to South Sudan's independence.
The book concludes with coverage of events since then, which since
December 2013 have assumed the character of civil war, and with
insights into what the future might hold.
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