Personal Rule in Black Africa
Personal Rule in Black Africa

Author: Robert H. Jackson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0520313070

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Military Power and Politics in Black Africa
Military Power and Politics in Black Africa

Author: Simon Baynham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1000347516

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First published in 1986, Military Power and Politics in Black Africa explores many themes that concerned military power and politics in sub-Saharan Africa at the time of publication. Adopting a thematic approach, the book considers the nature of both intervention and disengagement and looks at the relationship between civilian and military institutions. The final chapters put forward arguments for the importance of foreign intervention in the politics and civil-military relations of African states.

Liberia under Samuel Doe, 1980–1985
Liberia under Samuel Doe, 1980–1985

Author: Yekutiel Gershoni

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-03-28

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1793617880

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On April 12, 1980, a group of soldiers led by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe executed a bloody coup that put an end to the Americo-Liberian minority regime in Liberia, transforming Africa’s first republic into a military dictatorship. In Liberia under Samuel Doe, 1980-1985: The Politics of Personal Rule, Yekutiel Gershoni examines the evolution and effects of Samuel K. Doe’s reign in Liberia. Gershoni shows Doe’s path to absolute power, corruption, and dictatorship and the economic crises and political turmoil that ensued, even after his murder in 1990. Liberia under Samuel Doe also examines the role of the United States as Liberia’s closest ally, detailing how Doe managed to attract American diplomatic and military support due to U.S. interests in the Cold War. Through in-depth research, primary sources, and interviews with diplomats, politicians, and activists, Gershoni carefully details the timeline of Doe’s rise to power and the lasting effects of his dictatorial legacy.

Heart of Whiteness
Heart of Whiteness

Author: June Goodwin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0684813653

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When South Africa's present transitional government comes to an end, apartheid will be dead. But just as the demise of slavery did not solve America's race problems, so the abolition of apartheid will only begin South Africa's healing process. Heart of Whiteness examines the cataclysmic changes taking place among Afrikaners--the "white tribe" of South Africa.

Institutions and Democracy in Africa
Institutions and Democracy in Africa

Author: Nic Cheeseman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1107148243

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Offers new research on the vital importance of institutions, such as presidential term-limits in the African democratisation processes.