Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review[T]his is a groundbreaking study that will appeal to historians and political scientists alike who are keen on understanding the drama that has wreaked havoc in central Africa in the wake of the Cold War and continues to afflict the entire area.
* American Historical Review *
Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer have written an important and extraordinarily well-researched book.
* Journal of Modern African Studies *
The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa deserves a wide reading among scholars of nationalism and decolonization in post-colonial Africa.
* African Studies Review *
The Katangese Gendarmes is a welcome, timely and necessary addition to the body of studies dedicated to war and conflict in Central Africa and an exemplary effort in historical conflict studies underpinned by a rigorous conceptual background on statehood, nationalism and conflict in postcolonial Africa. . . . Kennes and Larmer's book offers unparalleled testimony of key stakeholders in the entire region's recent political history. For anyone interested in such issues, and students of Angola and the Congo in particular, this book should have a prominent place in libraries and on syllabi and bookshelves.
* Africa *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Becoming Katanga
2. The Katangese Secession 1960-63
3. Into Exile and Back 1963-67
4. With the Portuguese 1967-74
5. The Katangese Gendarmes in the Angolan Civil War 1974-1976
6. The Shaba Wars
7. Disarmament and Division 1979-1996
8. The Overthrow of Mobutu and After 1996-2015
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
