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Spear of the Nation: Umkhonto weSizwe: South Africa's Liberation Army, 1960s-1990s (Ohio Short Histories of Africa) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 37: Ohio Short Histories of Africa

Cherry, Janet

 
9780821420263: Spear of the Nation: Umkhonto weSizwe: South Africa's Liberation Army, 1960s-1990s (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0821420267 ISBN 13: 9780821420263
Verlag: Univ of Chicago on behalf of Ohio Univ Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century-but it never got to "march triumphant into Pretoria." MK-as it was known-was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa's liberation movement, that challenged the South African apartheid government. A small group of revolutionaries committed to the seizure of power, MK discovered its principal members engaged in negotiated settlement with the enemy and was disbanded soon after.
The history of MK is one of paradox and contradiction, of successes and failures. In this short study, which draws widely on the personal experiences of-and commentary by-MK soldiers, Janet Cherry offers a new and nuanced account of the Spear of the Nation. She presents in broad outline the various stages of MK's thirty-year history, considers the difficult strategic and moral problems the revolutionary army faced, and argues that its operations are likely to be remembered as a just war conducted with considerable restraint.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Janet Cherry is a human rights activist, researcher, and academic who teaches at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She has written and published on the history of the liberation struggle for the South African Democratic Education Trust.

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Verlag
Univ of Chicago on behalf of Ohio Univ Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0821420267
ISBN 13 
9780821420263
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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