1st Edition

War And Society In Africa

By Bethwell A Ogot Copyright 1971
260 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This reprint provides an opportunity for scholars to investigate some early academic study of welfare and militarization in African society. It is an early guide to the nature and evolution of Africanist debate on war and its place in African social development.

INTRODUCTION 1 SUCCESSION WARS IN THE PRE-COLONIAL KINGDOM OF NKORE 2 THE CIVIL WAR IN USUKU 3 THE VIOLENCE OF TEWODROS 4 WAR AND LAND IN RHODESIA IN THE 1890s 5 PARTICIPATION IN THE 'BOER WAR' 6 AFRICAN METHODS OF WARFARE DURING THE MAJI MAJI WAR, 1905-1907 7 MUMBOISM-AN ANTI-COLONIAL MOVEMENT 8 THE KYANYANGIRE, 1907: PASSIVE REVOLT AGAINST BRITISH OVERRULE 9 THE GIRIAMA WAR, 1914-1915 10 MBIRU

Biography

Bethwell A Ogot, University of Nairobi, Kenya.