Self-determination and secession in Africa : the post-colonial state

Self-determination and secession in Africa : the post-colonial state / edited by Redie Bereketeab.

This book provides a unique comparative study of the major secessionist and self-determination movements in post-colonial Africa, examining theory, international law, charters of the United Nations, and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)/African Union's (AU) stance on the issue. The book e...

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Main Author: Bereketeab, Redie (Author, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Routledge studies in African development.
Subjects:
Since 1960
Self-determination, National > Africa.
Secession > Africa.
Decolonization > Africa.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Decolonization
Politics and government
Secession
Self-determination, National
Sezession > Völkerrecht
Staat
Selbstbestimmung
Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
Africa > History.
Africa
Afrika
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Conceptions, international law and charters. ch. 1. Self-determination and secession : African challenges / Redie Bereketeab
  • ch. 2. Acquisition of autonomy : the right of self-determination in international law / Dan Kuwali
  • ch. 3. The OAU doctrine on colonial boundaries and conflicts of separation in the Horn of Africa / Kidane Mengisteab.
  • pt. 2. Non-colonial creation successful secession case : South Sudan. ch. 4. Political history of Southern Sudan before independence of the Sudan / Samson Samuel Wassara
  • ch. 5. Sudan first civil war for self-determination
  • ch. 6. Second civil war creation of the united 'New Sudan' / Leben Nelson Moro. pt. 3. Colonial creation unsuccessful cases of self-determination: Somaliland and Zanzibar. ch. 7. Guests in our houses: Somaliland and British colonialism / Ladan Affi
  • ch. 8. Less and more than the sum of its parts : the failed merger of Somaliland and Somalia and the tragic quest for 'Greater Somalia' / Abdirahman Yusuf Duale (Bobe)
  • ch. 9. Identifying challenges against winning an international recognition and its prospects : the case of Somaliland / Adam Haji-Ali Ahmed
  • ch. 10. The Zanzibar secessionist sentiments : can regional integration theory provide insights into the phenomenon? / Francis Matambalya. pt. 4. Identity groups claiming secession that failed. ch. 11. Why Katanga's quest for self-determination and secession failed / Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo / ch. 12. Nigeria and the Biafran war of secession : when national unity triumphs over self-determination? / Godwin Onuoha and Cyril Obi
  • ch. 13. The paradoxes of secessionism among Tuarag in northern Mali / Ole Martin Gaasholt. pt. 5. Colonially created, annexed by neighbouring countries cases. ch. 14. Namibia's negotiation to independence / Henning Melber
  • ch. 15. Eritrea a colonial creation : a case of aborted decolonisation / Redie Bereketeab
  • ch. 16. The arduous quest of the Saharawi people for self-determination : the complexities of unachieved decolonization / Belkacem Iratni.

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