The paper is a comparative analysis of post-liberation politics in Zimbabwe and Eritrea. It proposes that insufficient attention has been paid to the impact of negotiated transitions and inherited state forms in analysing Southern African post-liberation states. The Eritrean case, which is relatively little-known, reveals the significance of the negotiated transitions and the inherited state institutions (or the lack thereof), in addition to the history and weight of the armed struggle and nationalist politics. While there are many similarities between the two states, both during the liberation war and after, relations between state and society have been markedly different
The article seeks to stimulate debate about Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle, with a special focus ...
In light of the recent waves of secessionist struggle and conflict in Africa, a number of debates ha...
The lack of convergence towards liberal democracy in some African countries reflects neither a perma...
This article examines the politics of African states in which insurgencies or liberation movements h...
The paper examines the politics of the National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students (NUEYS), Unive...
This paper addresses the issue of what happens after a civil war ends. In particular it traces the d...
This paper investigates the perplexing issue of the democratic deficit in Africa's postliberation st...
In the April 2003 issue of Atlantic Monthly, Robert Kaplan describes Eritrea as “newly independent, ...
Between 1986 and 1994, East Africa's postcolonial, political settlement was profoundly challenged as...
In this chapter, the limits to the memory of liberation are investigated with regard to the factors ...
In this paper I have applied root narrative theory to the case of conflict in Eritrea, a small Afric...
Regime change politics has dominated political discourse in Southern Africa in the neoliberal era. I...
Inter-state wars are not one of the most salient features of current world politics. Indeed, the pre...
Conflicting views of the Eritrean independence war as a solitary, single-handed struggle against the...
Rwanda entered independence following a transition marked by violent internecine conflict. The confl...
The article seeks to stimulate debate about Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle, with a special focus ...
In light of the recent waves of secessionist struggle and conflict in Africa, a number of debates ha...
The lack of convergence towards liberal democracy in some African countries reflects neither a perma...
This article examines the politics of African states in which insurgencies or liberation movements h...
The paper examines the politics of the National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students (NUEYS), Unive...
This paper addresses the issue of what happens after a civil war ends. In particular it traces the d...
This paper investigates the perplexing issue of the democratic deficit in Africa's postliberation st...
In the April 2003 issue of Atlantic Monthly, Robert Kaplan describes Eritrea as “newly independent, ...
Between 1986 and 1994, East Africa's postcolonial, political settlement was profoundly challenged as...
In this chapter, the limits to the memory of liberation are investigated with regard to the factors ...
In this paper I have applied root narrative theory to the case of conflict in Eritrea, a small Afric...
Regime change politics has dominated political discourse in Southern Africa in the neoliberal era. I...
Inter-state wars are not one of the most salient features of current world politics. Indeed, the pre...
Conflicting views of the Eritrean independence war as a solitary, single-handed struggle against the...
Rwanda entered independence following a transition marked by violent internecine conflict. The confl...
The article seeks to stimulate debate about Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle, with a special focus ...
In light of the recent waves of secessionist struggle and conflict in Africa, a number of debates ha...
The lack of convergence towards liberal democracy in some African countries reflects neither a perma...