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Africa

Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226453606, ISBN: HB: 9780226453576, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country ap...

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Anthropology

Unmasking the State Making Guinea Modern

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226925103, ISBN: HB: 9780226925097, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 maps, 8 tables, 12 halftones

When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed "fetishes". The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urg...

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Military

Making War in Cote d'Ivoire

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781850658160, Hurst Publishers, May 2011
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has the characteristics of Shakespearean drama – the key figures are larger than life, each with a fatal flaw, and the self-destructive path each is following is clearly visible to all but themselv...

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