Daily lives of civilians in wartime Africa
Subtitle: from slavery days to Rwandan genocide
By: edited by John Laband
Contributors: Laband, John, 1947-
Series: Greenwood Press Daily life through history series
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780313335402
Subjects: War and society -- Africa; Combatants and noncombatants (International law); Civilian war casualties -- Africa; Civil-military relations -- Africa; Civil war -- Africa; Ethnic conflict -- Africa; Africa -- History, Military; Africa -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: African civilians in wartime / John Laband; title: Civilian casualties in the context of the trans-Atlantic slave trade / Paul E. Lovejoy; title: Zulu civilians during the rise and fall of the Zulu Kingdom, c. 1817-1879 / John Laband; title: Civilians in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / Bill Nasson; title: The impact of the First World War on African people / Tim Stapleton; title: African civilians in the era of the Second World War, c. 1935-1950 / David Killingray; title: Angolan civilians in wartime, 1961-2002 / Inge Brinkman; title: Liberia and Sierra Leone : civil wars, 1989-2004 / Lansana Gberie; title: The consequences of Sudan's civil wars on the civilian population / Jane Kani Edwards and Amir Idris; title: The making of the Rwandan genocide and the future protection of civilians in Africa / Alhaji M.S. Bah