Articles · Vol. 5 No 2 (2009): Revue africaine des Livres, volume 5, n° 2, 2009 · Pages 5-6

Revolution as Warfare in the Horn of Africa

  • Jon Abbink
    Jon Abbink Professor Emeritus of Politics and Governance in Africa at Leiden University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1383-7849 (non authentifié)
    JON ABBINK is a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden and a research professor at the VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has done extensive anthropological field research in southern and central Ethiopia on social organization, ethnicity and...
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Résumé

The Ethiopian Revolution. War in the Horn of Africa by Gebru Tareke. Yale University Press, 2009, xx + 437 pp., ISBN 978-0-300-14163-4. Hb, U$ 45.00

This study on war and revolution in Ethiopia and Eritrea is the magnum opus of historian Gebru Tareke and presents a wide-ranging and detailed overview of the emergence of revolution, insurgency and war in Eritrea and Ethiopia over the past four decades. These are familiar themes, studied in many books and papers, but the merit of this book is its comprehensive character, its sustained focus on the military engagements resulting from the revolutionary turmoil in the Horn, its solid basis in new archival materials unearthed from the Ethiopian Ministries of National Defence and of Internal Affairs, and its bold but often controversial interpretations of Ethiopia’s recent political history. The author has also augmented his research with many interviews held with eye-witnesses and protagonists...

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Revolution Warfare Africa

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  • Jon Abbink, Professor Emeritus of Politics and Governance in Africa at Leiden University

    JON ABBINK is a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden and a research professor at the VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has done extensive anthropological field research in southern and central Ethiopia on social organization, ethnicity and ethno-history, and on political culture in the Horn of Africa.

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