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Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting Their Way Home

Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting Their Way Home

Kennes, Erik
Larmer, Miles

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African HistoryOther Wars

ISBN10: 0253021391
ISBN13: 9780253021397
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Jul 1 2016
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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