Research Catalog

Title

The roots of African conflicts : the causes & costs / edited by Alfred Nhema & Paul Tiyambe Zeleza.

Publication

Oxford : James Currey ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nhema, Alfred G.
• Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe, 1955-

Description

xii, 244 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This work, along with 'The Resolution of African Conflicts', clearly demonstrates the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts and how to re-build post-conflict societies.

Subject

• Since 1960
• Politiek geweld
• Political violence > Africa
• Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) > Africa
• Politieke conflicten
• Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
• Afrika

Note

• "Published in association with OSSREA Addis Ababa."
• "Zimbabwe - Lesotho - Kenya - Sudan - Uganda - The Horn of Africa"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Conflict in Africa : an overview / Ali A. Mazrui -- When states implode : Africa's civil wars, 1950-92 / Errol A. Henderson -- Multiple complexity & prospects for reconciliation & unity : the Sudan conundrum / Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed -- "You don't belong here" : citizenship, the state & Africa's conflicts : reflections on Ivory Coast / John Akokpari -- The terrible toll of postcolonial rebel movements : towards an explanation of the violence against the peasantry / Thandika Mkandawire -- Fanon & the African woman combatant : updating Fanon's psychological perspectives on anti-colonial & postcolonial wars / Aaronette M. White -- Fighting locally, connecting globally : inside & outside dimensions of African conflict / Sandra J. Maclean -- Legislative responses to terrorism & the protection of human rights : a survey of selective African practice / Cephas Lumina -- Conflicts & implications for poverty & food security policies in Africa / Fondo Sikod -- Two Africas? Two Ugandas? : an African "democratic developmental state"? or another "failed state"? / Timothy M. Shaw & Pamela K. Mbabazi.

ISBN

• 9781847013002 (pbk. : James Currey)
• 1847013007 (pbk. : James Currey)
• 9780821418093 (pbk. : Ohio University Press)
• 0821418092 (pbk. : Ohio University Press)
• 9781868884926 (pbk. : UNISA Press)
• 1868884929 (pbk. : UNISA Press)

LCCN

^^2008297783

OCLC

• 232605809
• SCSB-11586007

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library