Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313359712)

This book provides an extensive examination of the major conflicts in the extremely volatile region of sub-Saharan Africa and their ramifications throughout the continent and beyond.

Conflict has been a critical factor in the making of contemporary Africa, and its study is key to understanding the continent's tortuous history. Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the area's major, post-independence conflicts intense enough to threaten national, regional, or international security.

This work defines conflict broadly to encompass political instability and state failure, ethno-religious tensions, government and political corruption, economic mismanagement and poverty, cult violence, and youth gangsterism. Thematically organized chapters examine the origins and development of explosive hot spots--including Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, and Democratic Republic of Congo--in West Africa, Nigeria, Southern Africa, the Horn of Africa and Central Africa, and the Great Lakes region. The book also explores outside factors that have impacted African conflicts, such as superpower Cold War manipulation and foreign influence and intervention.

Author: Toyin Falola,Adebayo O. Oyebade
ISBN-10: 0313359717
ISBN-13: 9780313359712
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2010
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 58