Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa: The Struggles of Emerging States

by David M. Anderson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138059617
• ISBN13: 9781138059610
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages