Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa`s Deadliest Conflict 9780190611354

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Автор: Roessler Philip, Verhoeven Harry
Название: Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa`s Deadliest Conflict
ISBN: 9780190611354
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0190611359
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.73 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 218 x 150 x 38
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: США
Описание: 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. Backed by a Rwanda-led regional coalition that drew support from Asmara to Luanda, the rebels of the AFDL marched over 1500 kilometers in seven months to crush the dictatorship. To the Congolese rebels and their Pan-Africanist allies, the vanquishing of the Mobutu regime represented nothing short of a second independence for Congo and Central Africa as a whole and the dawning of a new regional order of peace and security.
?Within fifteen months, however, Central Africas liberation peace would collapse, triggering a cataclysmic fratricide between the heroes of the war against Mobutu and igniting the deadliest conflict since World War II. Uniquely drawing on hundreds of interviews with protagonists from Congo, Rwanda, Angola, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Africa, Belgium, France, the UK and the US, Why Comrades Go To War offers a novel theoretical and empirical account of Africas Great War. It argues that the seeds of Africas Great War were sown in the revolutionary struggle against Mobutu--the way the revolution came together, the way it was organized, and, paradoxically, the very way it succeeded. In particular, the book argues that the overthrow of Mobutu proved a Pyrrhic victory because the protagonists ignored the philosophy of Julius Nyerere, the father of Africas liberation movements: they put the gun before the unglamorous but essential task of building the domestic and regional political institutions and organizational structures necessary to consolidate peace after revolution.

Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa`s Deadliest Conflict, Roessler Philip, Verhoeven Harry