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"In this chronicle of Africa's military history, Robert Edgerton starts in pre-colonial times, when armed forces or militias were essential to the maintenance and prosperity of their societies. Then, during the colonial era, African soldiers fought with death-defying courage, earning such respect as warriors that they were often recruited into the colonial armies to not only enforce colonial rule in Africa, but to fight for the European homelands as well.
After independence swept through Africa, African military seized political power in country after country, ruling dictatorially for their own benefit and for that of their kinsmen and cronies. The author describes the post-colonial civil wars that have devastated much of sub-Saharan Africa - catastrophes marked by genocide, famine, disease, economic collapse, and steadily declining life expectancy.
He ends by describing the role that Africa's military forces can and must play if the future is to bring better times to the continent's many peoples and states."--BOOK JACKET.
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Africa's Armies: From Honor to Infamy
November 2, 2004, Basic Books
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0813342775 9780813342771
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Africa's armies: from honor to infamy : a history from 1791 to the present
2002, Westview Press
in English
0813339472 9780813339474
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"MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS HAVE FLOURISHED IN MANY TIMES AND MANY places throughout history."
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