Recommended texts

I highly recommend William Reno's Warfare in Independent Africa (Cambridge, 2011). Copies are stocked in the bookshop and all students will find this a useful text. However, it will not be used as a textbook and so is not compulsory. Students requiring more on the wider context of the events we'll be discussing in the module should look at Frederick Cooper, Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present (Cambridge, 2002) and Paul Nugent, Africa Since Independence: A Comparative History (Basingstoke, 2004).

Required reading

The reading that will be required for each seminar is listed under the seminar headings.

Further reading

• Conceptual

• General Post-Colonial Africa & Conflict (includes edited collections with chapters on specific cases listed below)

• Angola (pre- & post-independence)
  
• Nigeria
  
• Congo/Zaire (1960s & 1990s-2000s)
  
• Eritrea & Ethiopia
  
• Kenya (Mau Mau & political violence in 1990s & 2000s)
• Liberia
• Mozambique (pre- & post-independence)
  
• Namibia
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
  
• Sudan (both civil wars & Darfur)
• Uganda
• Zimbabwe (pre- & post-independence)