Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa : The Struggles of Emerging States (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Violence as politics in eastern Africa, 1940-1990 ? legacy, agency, contingency

2. Calm between the storms? Patterns of political violence in Somalia, 1950-1980

3. Political violence and the emergence of the dispute over Abyei, Sudan, 1950-1983

4. "Unsound" minds and broken bodies: the detention of "hardcore" Mau Mau women at Kamiti and Gitamayu Detention Camps in Kenya, 1954-1960

5. Discourses of violence in the transition from colonialism to independence in southern Sudan, 1955-1960

6. Ethiopian state support to insurgency in Southern Sudan from 1962 to 1983: local, regional and global connections

7. Violence, decolonisation and the Cold War in Kenya’s north-eastern province, 1963-1978

8. Remembering Wagalla: state violence in northern Kenya, 1962-1991

9. Ethiopian foreign policy and the Ogaden War: the shift from "containment" to "destabilization", 1977-1991

10. The Uganda-Tanzania War, the fall of Idi Amin, and the failure of African

diplomacy, 1978-1979

11. The grassroots nature of counterinsurgent tribal militia formation: the case

of the Fertit in Southern Sudan, 1985-1989

12. Punishing the periphery: legacies of state repression in the Ethiopian Ogaden