More Shopping OptionsThis book shows how Africa's former colonial powers--including Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain--trained members and leaders of colonial Armed Forces to be politically nonpartisan. Yet, the modern-day Armed Forces have become so politicized that many countries are today ruled or have already been ruled by military dictators through coups d'etat, occasionally for good reasons as the book points out. This book traces the historical and political evolution of these events and what bodes for Africa, where the unending military incursions into partisan politics are concerned.
A. B. Assensoh is Professor in the Afro-American Studies Department at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Yvette Alex-Assensoh is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington.
a Runner-Up for the 2002 Cecil B. Currey Association of Third World Studies Book-Length Publication Award.
"Important . . . a reminder that military interventions in African politics are indeed still alive and well, but also that the interventions have a solid history across generations. " --Ali A. Mazrui, Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, SUNY–Binghamton
Foreword by Professor Richard W. Hull of New York University * Introduction --Okey Onyejekwe of Ohio State University * Preface * Africa's Recent Colonial Past, 1900s-1960s * Africa's Armed Forces in Retrospect: The History of the Colonial and Post-Colonial Forces * Corrupt and Dictatorial Tendencies: The Tacit Invitation for Military Intervention * Military Leaders-Turned Civilian Rulers * Military Presence in African Politics: Stability or Instability? * African Coups Galore: Foreign and Ideological Influences * African Coups in Political and Theoretical Contexts
