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The Katangese gendarmes and war in Central Africa : fighting their way home / Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253021502
  • 0253021502
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Katangese gendarmes and war in Central Africa.DDC classification:
  • 967.51803 23
LOC classification:
  • DT665.K3 K46 2015eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.

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