Insurgencies or guerrilla movements have come to occupy a prominent place in the politics of modern Africa. This book analyzes the relationship between African insurgencies and the local societies in which they are set, the organizational principles upon which the insurgencies are based, and the relationship between the insurgencies and the wider world, both regionally and globally.
Author(s): Christopher Clapham
Edition: cloth
Publisher: Indiana University Press / James Currey / Fountain Publishers
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 208
City: Bloomington & Indianapolis / Oxford / Kampala
Introduction: Analysing African insurgencies / Christopher Clapham --
The Eritrean People's Liberation Front / David Pool --
The Tigray People's Liberation Front / John Young --
The Sudan People's Liberation Army & the problem of factionalism / Douglas H. Johnson --
Somali armed units : the interplay of political entrepreneurship & clan-based factions / Daniel Compagnon --
Uganda: the National Resistance Army / Pascal Ngoga --
War in Northern Uganda : the Holy Spirit Movements of Alice Lakwena, Severino Lukoya & Joseph Kony (1986-1997) / Heike Behrend --
The Rwandan Patriotic Front / Gérard Prunier --
Guerillas in the midst : the Former Government of Rwanda & the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire in Eastern Zaire / Wm Cyrus Reed --
Liberia's warlord insurgency / Stephen Ellis --
The Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone : a revolt of the Lumpenproletariat / Ibrahim Abdullah and Patrick Muana.
