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Africa's Armies From Honor to Infamy A History from 1791 to the Present by Robert B. Edgerton $30.00 Westview Press Hardcover | 344 pages | 0813339472 | November 2002
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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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