TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roessler,Philip G.
AU  - Verhoeven,Harry
TI  - Why comrades go to war: liberation politics and the outbreak of Africa's deadliest conflict 
SN  - 9780190686581 (ebook) :
AV  - DT658.25 .R64 2017
U1  - 967.51033 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Congo (Democratic Republic)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Ethnic conflict
KW  - 1997-
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Drawing on hundreds of interviews with protagonists from Congo, Rwanda, Angola, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Africa, Belgium, France, the UK and the US, 'Why Comrades Go to War' offers a theoretical and empirical account of Africa's Great War. It argues that the seeds of Africa's Great War were sown in the revolutionary struggle against Mobutu - the way the revolution came together, the way it was organized, and, paradoxically, the very way it succeeded. In particular, the work argues that the overthrow of Mobutu proved a Pyrrhic victory because the protagonists ignored the philosophy of Julius Nyerere, the father of Africa's liberation movements
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ER  -