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Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army: the new order no one ordered
Van Acker, Frank
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For almost 18 years, the so-called ‘Lord’s Resistance Army’ (LRA) has waged war on the Ugandan government and its own people, the Acholi. The robustness of the conflict indicates that the forces working against peace outstrip those working for it. Analysis of the conflict is often reduced to describing the LRA rebellion as the handiwork of a religious fanatic. However, the social disorder that the National Resistance Movement, led by current President Museveni, inherited in 1986 after the downfall of the Acholi-led Okello regime, contained the root causes for continued insurgency. These were amplified by external circumstances that created the operational leeway for rebellion, gathering force in the absence of a credible Acholi political leadership. A deliverance couched in religious discourse resolved the quandary. The emergence and transformation of the LRA can be made comprehensible only in relation, or even in opposition, to the emergence and downfall of the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces (HSMF) as a radical structure of rejection. Millenarian religious justification contextualizes violence and the use of terror as a means of immobilization and control of the population. As the character and composition of the LRA evolved to include the kidnapping of children, and as the terror escalated, the insurgency became increasingly ensnared in a web of internal contradictions. The result is that the LRA has exacerbated the process of dehumanization the HSMF first set out to counter.
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Rebel movements and proxy warfare: Uganda, Sudan and the Congo (1986-99)
Prunier, Gérard
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Sudan and Uganda have for many years carried out an undeclared war. One little-known aspect of this conflict is the use of Zaire/Congo as an outside battlefield where proxy guerrilla organizations either fought each other or fought the armies of their sponsor’s enemy. From a small scale prior to 1996, the conflict grew to occupy a major place in terms of men engaged and battles fought after this proxy war morphed into the bigger ‘Congolese’ conflict which developed from the fall of President Mobutu and lasted until 2002.
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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The politics of rebellion and intervention in Ituri:the emergence of a new political complex?
Vlassenroot, Koen
Raeymaekers, Timothy
Article
This article offers an interpretation of the present conflict in Ituri based on social analysis. Other than the conventional accounts which depart from the presence of foreign troops on Congolese soil, reduce the war to a struggle for natural resources or see it as the result of age-old ethnichatreds, the authors try to place this conflict into its social setting. The central argument of this article is that the outbreak of violence in Ituri has been the result of the exploitation, by local and regional actors, of a deeply rooted local political conflict for access to land, economic opportunity and political power. Firstly, it is assumed that the destruction of the local socioeconomic fabric and the emergence of ethnicity as the main basis for political mobilization has been the result of a long historical process in which access to land, education, political positions and economic dominance have played a crucial role. Secondly, it is asserted that, although foreign elements (i.e. the UPDF and RDF, formerly RPA) have contributed significantly to the escalation of the political crisis in Ituri, the war has also provided a perfect platform for local political and economic actors to redefine their position in this new political and economic landscape. Eventually, this emerging political complex has led to the development of a new political economy which is characterized by a shift from traditional to military rule, to privatized, non-territorial networks of economic control, and to the consolidation of ethnic bonds in the economic and political sphere.
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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The geography of regime survival: Abacha's Nigeria
Kraxberger, Brennan
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This article examines the state-creation process in Nigeria in the context of military regime survival in the 1990s. Nigeria entered a period of protracted political crisis following the annulment of the 12 June 1993 presidential election and the entrenchment of the Abacha military government. The southwest, or Yorubaland,was the hotbed of opposition to continued military rule. This research shows how the Abacha government utilized the neo-colonial strategy of ‘divide and survive’ to fragment opposition in Yorubaland, and how the government divided regional opposition both socially and spatially. A local coalition of Ekiti elites chose statehood over solidarity with their fellow Yorubas opposing Abacha, particularly those aligned with Afenifere and the Oduduwa People’s Congress. New state movements — like that for Ekiti State — promoted more local identities at the expense of pan-Yoruba solidarity and unified opposition to the regime. The article is based on six months of fieldwork in Nigeria in 2002, including a case study of the movement for the creation of Ekiti State. Overall, it seeks to contribute to our understanding of the geography of regime survival.
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Sharia and control over territory: conflicts between 'settlers' and 'indigenes' in Nigeria
Harnischfeger, Johannes
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Introducing Islamic laws is a means of setting up claims over territory in which the will of Muslims reigns supreme. This has led to violent conflicts, especially in parts of the Middle Belt of Nigeria, where Muslim ‘settlers’ from the north, most of them Hausa and Fulani, have clashed with indigenous ethnic groups which are largely Christian and ‘traditionalist’. The call for Sharia is popular among the migrants, as it provides them with a divine mission: they have to assume supremacy over the local non-Muslim population in order to shape public institutions according to what they see as the will of God. The ‘indigenes’, however, have little interest in a religious confrontation. As ‘sons of the soil’, they want to defend their ancestral land against ‘foreign tribes’; they therefore emphasize ethnic, not religious, antagonisms.
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Commentary: towards a new start for Africa and Europe
Bayart, Jean-François
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Oxford University Press
2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Briefing: the pan-Sahel initiative
Ellis, Stephen
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Oxford University Press
2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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AEGIS European conference on African studies -- 2005
Collis, Jackie
Fardon, Richard
Conference Reports
Oxford University Press
2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Notes and news
Notes and News
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Governing empire: colonial memoirs and the history of HM overseas civil service
Jackson, Ashley
Review Articles
Oxford University Press
2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Fanon's Warning: A civil society reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development, edited by Patrick Bond.Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc., 2002. 219 pp. $24.95 paperback. ISBN 1592210090 (paperback)
Kagwanja, Peter Mwangi
Book Reviews
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Britain and the mastery of the Sudan, by Eve M. Troutt Powell. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003. xi + 260 pp. {pound}45 hardback, {pound}17.95 paperback. ISBN 0-520-23317-4. (hardback)
Woodward, Peter
Book Reviews
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Pan-African History: Political figures from Africa and the diaspora since 1787, edited by Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood. London: Routledge, 2003. 203 pp. {pound}18.99 paperback. ISBN 0-415-17353-1 (paperback)
Killingray, David
Book Reviews
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Into Exile and Back, by Simon Zukas. Lusaka: Bookworld Publishers, 2002, viii + 220 pp. 14 colour photos. (Available from David Zukas, 189 Mountview Road, London N4 4JT or davidzukas@onetel.net.uk {pound}8 including postage.)
Macmillan, Hugh
Book Reviews
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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'Half-London' in Zambia: Contested identities in a Catholic mission school, by Anthony Simpson. Edinburgh and London: Edinburgh University Press and International African Library, 2003. 224 pp. {pound}16.95 paperback. ISBN 0-7486-1804-X (paperback)
Rasing, Thera
Book Reviews
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and visions of empire in France, edited by Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. xii + 284 pp. {pound}50.00 hardback. ISBN 0-333-71980-0 (hardback) * The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's successful decolonization?, by Tony Chafer. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002. xix + 264 pp. {pound}50.00 hardback, {pound}15.99 paperback. ISBN 1-85973-6 (paperback)
Kirk-Greene, Anthony
Book Reviews
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Inside Independent Nigeria: Diaries of Wolfgang Stolper, edited by Clive S. Gray. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2003. xxx + 321 pp. Photographs. Map. Postscript. Addendum. Indices of Names and Subjects. {pound}35.00 hardback. ISBN: 0-7546-0995-2 (hardback)
Vickers, Michael
Book Reviews
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, livestock, and the environment 1770-1950, by William Beinart. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xx + 425pp. {pound}65 hardback. ISBN 0-19-926151-2 (hardback)
Carruthers, Jane
Book Reviews
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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African Historical Archaeologies, edited by Andrew M. Reid and Paul J. Lane. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. 408 pp. US$165.00 hardback, US$77.00 paperback. ISBN 0-306-47995-8 (hardback)
Stahl, Ann B.
Book Reviews
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Political Power in Pre-colonial Buganda: Economy, society and warfare in the nineteenth century, by Richard J. Reid. Oxford: James Currey, 2002. xiv + 274 pp. {pound}16.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-450-8 (paperback)
Twaddle, Michael
Book Reviews
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Bibliography
Barringer, T. A.
Bibliography
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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A select list of articles on Africa appearing in non-Africanist periodicals
Barringer, T. A.
Periodicals
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2004-07-01 00:00:00.0
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