Since 1950, there has been almost continuous military unrest in Africa. This study offers an overview of warfare in this period, examining a military tradition that ranges from the highly sophisticated electronic, air and armour fighting between South Africa and Angola-Cuban forces, to the spears and machetes of the Rwandan genocide. The author explores two themes: first, that warfare in North Africa has principally been a matter of identity and secondly, that warfare south of the Sahara is comparable with that of pre-colonial Africa - conflicts of frontiersmen trying to extend their control over land and resources. Exploring liberation campaigns, civil wars, ethnic conflicts and wars between nations, this study provides an authoritative military history of Africa over half a century.
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'Few of us, myself included, know much about war itself: Clayton does...there can be few better qualified than him for the grisly task,' - African Affairs
'A comprehensive and timely overview of warfare in Africa from 1950 to the present day ... the meticulously accurate appendices are clearly set out and combine to form a mini encyclopedic dictionary: from that perspective alone the volume is a tool worth having.' - The World Today
'A comprehensive and timely overview of warfare in Africa from 1950 to the present day ... the meticulously accurate appendices are clearly set out and combine to form a mini encyclopedic dictionary: from that perspective alone the volume is a tool worth having.' - The World Today
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The first series of anti-colonial liberation campaigns in Africa in the 1950s saw two insurgency movements against the British, one in Egypt on a small scale the second, the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, more serious. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neuf historiques, faction fighters, armoured personnel carriers, parachute troops, insurgency campaign, insurgency movements, sharp fighting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Mau Mau, Soviet Union, United States, Sierra Leone, Foreign Legion, Western Sahara, South West Africa, Addis Ababa, Portuguese Guinea, Burkina Faso, Port Harcourt, Cabora Bassa, Cape Verde, New York, Second World War, Bulak Nizam, Costa Gomes, Culto Cuanavale, Eastern Europe, Fourth Republic, Haile Selassie, Ivory Coast, Morice Line, Cold War New!
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The first series of anti-colonial liberation campaigns in Africa in the 1950s saw two insurgency movements against the British, one in Egypt on a small scale the second, the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, more serious. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neuf historiques, faction fighters, armoured personnel carriers, parachute troops, insurgency campaign, insurgency movements, sharp fighting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Mau Mau, Soviet Union, United States, Sierra Leone, Foreign Legion, Western Sahara, South West Africa, Addis Ababa, Portuguese Guinea, Burkina Faso, Port Harcourt, Cabora Bassa, Cape Verde, New York, Second World War, Bulak Nizam, Costa Gomes, Culto Cuanavale, Eastern Europe, Fourth Republic, Haile Selassie, Ivory Coast, Morice Line, Cold War New!
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- The African Witch by Joyce Cary in Front Matter
- History of England by G. M. Trevelyan on page 216
- Sunset in Biafra (African Writers Series) by Elechi Amadi on page 227
- Sahara occidental by Tony Hodges on page 212
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe in Front Matter
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