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Author Kennes, Erik, author

Title The Katangese gendarmes and war in Central Africa : fighting their way home / Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016

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Contents Becoming Katanga -- The Katangese secession, 1960-1963 -- Into exile and back, 1963-1967 -- With the Portuguese, 1967-1974 -- The Katangese gendarmes in the Angolan Civil War, 1974-1976 -- The Shaba wars -- Disarmament and division, 1979-1996 -- The overthrow of Mobutu and after, 1996-2015
Summary Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today's Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved independence and the gendarmes fought as the unrecognized state's army during the Congo crisis. Kennes and Larmer explain how the ex-gendarmes, then exiled in Angola, struggled to maintain their national identity and return "home." They take readers through the complex history of the Katangese and their engagement in regional conflicts and Africa's Cold War. Kennes and Larmer show how the paths not taken at Africa's independence persist in contemporary political and military movements and bring new understandings to the challenges that personal and collective identities pose to the relationship between African nation-states and their citizens and subjects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Front de libération nationale du Congo -- History
SUBJECT Front de libération nationale du Congo fast
Subject HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
Autonomy and independence movements
Militia
SUBJECT Katanga (Congo) -- Militia -- History
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Angola -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Africa, Central -- History -- 20th century
Subject Central Africa
Angola
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Katanga
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Larmer, Miles, author
ISBN 9780253021502
0253021502