Africa's Armies: From Honor To InfamyBasic Books, 25 mar. 2009 - 336 pagini Africa's Armies traces the military history of sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial era to the present. Robert Edgerton begins this sweeping chronicle by describing the role of African armies in pre-colonial times, when armed forces or militias were essential to the maintenance and prosperity of their societies. 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 not simply to enforce colonial rule in Africa, but to fight for the European homelands as well. After independence swept through Africa, African military men 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 closes 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. |
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5 | 102 |
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RWANDA BURUNDI AND GENOCIDE | 183 |
7 | 199 |
AFRICA TODAY AND TOMORROW | 221 |
NOTES | 230 |
REFERENCES | 289 |
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Africa's Armies: From Honor to Infamy : a History from 1791 to the Present Robert B. Edgerton Previzualizare limitată - 2002 |
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Pagina 185 - Each new method of inflicting pain was hailed as a splendid discovery, and the regular attendants were constantly ransacking their brains in the effort to devise some new torment. He told me that they even delved into the records of the Spanish Inquisition and other historic institutions of torture and adopted all the suggestions found there.
Pagina 14 - I ever insist on being paid for them ? Some heads I order to be placed at my door ; others to be strewed about the market-place, that people may stumble on them when they little expect such a sight.
Pagina 138 - the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake.
Pagina 57 - Africa a superstitious awe and dread of the white man that prevents the negro from daring to meet him face to face in combat. A steady advance or a charge, no matter how partial, if made with determination, always means the retreat of the enemy. Although when at a distance, and even when under a heavy fire...
Pagina 133 - I visited hospitals including one exclusively for those with tuberculosis. I saw first hand recent damage in the town of Kajo Keji on the western bank of the Nile where the Khartoum government bombed the crowded town market square, killing and injuring many. The Khartoum government conducted high altitude bombing on this village when there was no military presence. I saw bomb craters where they hit huts and destroyed the market place. I visited what was termed a hospital but what was in reality a...
Pagina 34 - And if Bureh was an unusually smart man, so did the Timini prove to be in the events that followed. Savages they might be, but even in their very fighting they betrayed such admirable qualities as are not always to be found in the troops of the " civilised
Pagina 36 - I could not persuade myself that any human being, without boots or shoes, would, under any circumstances, attempt to pass over so dangerous a collection of the most efficiently armed plants I had ever seen.
Pagina 169 - Agreement shall not apply to international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other serious violations of international humanitarian law'); also Report of the Secretary-General on the establishment of a Special Court for Sierra Leone, UN Doc.
Pagina 44 - And the enemy? No white troops would have faced that torrent of death for five minutes, but the Baggara and the blacks came on.