"An excellent contriubtion to the comparative analysis. " -- ForeignAffairs "This work is an important study. The individualchapters are based on extensive reearch and field work, often in difficult anddangerous conditions. They provide facts and insights not to be found elsewhere, andthe work will long remain an indispensable text." -- International Journal ofAfrican Historical Studies .". an outstanding study on themajor insurgencies that have gripped the belt of Sub-Saharan Africa." --Defense Affairs Insurgencies or guerrilla movements have come tooccupy a prominent place in the politics of modern Africa.

This book analyzes therelationship between African insurgencies and the local societies in which they areset, the organizational principles upon which the insurgencies are based, and therelationship between the insurgencies and the wider world, both regionally andglobally.