Erik Kennes, Miles Larmer

The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa

Fighting Their Way Home

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kennes and Larmer show how the paths not taken at Africa's independence persist in contemporary political and military movements and bring new understandings to the challenges that personal and collective identities pose to the relationship between African nation-states and their citizens and subjects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780253021397
• ISBN-10: 0253021391
• Artikelnr.: 43746950

Autorenporträt

Erik Kennes is Research Associate at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium and at the Institute for Development Policy and Management of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Miles Larmer is Associate Professor of African History at the University of Oxford. He is author of Rethinking African Politics: A History of Opposition in Zambia and Mineworkers in Zambia: Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial Africa, 1964-1991.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Becoming Katanga
2. The Katangese Secession 1960-63
3. Into Exile and Back 1963-67
4. With the Portuguese 1967-74
5. The Katangese Gendarmes in the Angolan Civil War 1974-1976
6. The Shaba Wars
7. Disarmament and Division 1979-1996
8. The Overthrow of Mobutu and After 1996-2015
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index