Small Wars, Small Mercies | Journeys In Africa’s Disputed Nations
Author - Jeremy Harding
Year published - 1993
Published by - Viking
Book Format - Hard Cover
Genre - Postwar Africa
Summary
This book is about Africa in recent times. The author follows the disparate paths of African liberation through the 1980’s to peace in Namibia and the victory of the Eritrean guerrilla in the 1990’s. His journeys take him to some of the farthest reaches of a vast and active continent - to Angola where South African troops are locked in battle with the government and the Cuban army, to Mozambique, where a local prophet leads a bullet-proof militia against a murderous rebel movement, to a wall in the Sahara built by an obstinate king. Throughout, the author bears witness to the local and particular, tracing the stories of men and women caught up in the local turmoil of war.
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Author - Jeremy Harding
Year published - 1993
Published by - Viking
Book Format - Hard Cover
Genre - Postwar Africa
Summary
This book is about Africa in recent times. The author follows the disparate paths of African liberation through the 1980’s to peace in Namibia and the victory of the Eritrean guerrilla in the 1990’s. His journeys take him to some of the farthest reaches of a vast and active continent - to Angola where South African troops are locked in battle with the government and the Cuban army, to Mozambique, where a local prophet leads a bullet-proof militia against a murderous rebel movement, to a wall in the Sahara built by an obstinate king. Throughout, the author bears witness to the local and particular, tracing the stories of men and women caught up in the local turmoil of war.
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Author - Jeremy Harding
Year published - 1993
Published by - Viking
Book Format - Hard Cover
Genre - Postwar Africa
Summary
This book is about Africa in recent times. The author follows the disparate paths of African liberation through the 1980’s to peace in Namibia and the victory of the Eritrean guerrilla in the 1990’s. His journeys take him to some of the farthest reaches of a vast and active continent - to Angola where South African troops are locked in battle with the government and the Cuban army, to Mozambique, where a local prophet leads a bullet-proof militia against a murderous rebel movement, to a wall in the Sahara built by an obstinate king. Throughout, the author bears witness to the local and particular, tracing the stories of men and women caught up in the local turmoil of war.
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