The yearning for relief : a history of the Sawaba movement in Niger / / by Klaas van Walraven.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 25
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Physical Description:xxvii, 967 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Historicising Sawaba
  • Part I. Deliverance, conquered and lost
  • The rise of the UDN, 1946-1957
  • To revolutionary supremacy, March 1957-May 1958
  • The challenge of the Fifth Republic
  • A referendum
  • Declining fortunes
  • Part II. Preparing for relief
  • Going underground, 1958-1961
  • Building to undermine, 1959-1962
  • Repression, dissension, and the road to arms
  • Training cadres and commandos, 1958-1969
  • Part III. Fighting for deliverance
  • Infiltrations, 1960-1964
  • Regime responses, 1962-1964
  • Guerrilla war, July-December 1964
  • Guerrilla war, 1965-1966
  • The road of honour: the destruction of a social movement, 1965-1974
  • Epilogue: Aftermath and memory.