Self-determination and secession in Africa : the post-colonial state / edited by Redie Bereketeab.

Includes bibliographical references.

pt. 1. Conceptions, international law and charters. ch. 1. Self-determination and secession : African challenges / Redie Bereketeab -- ch. 2. Acquisition of autonomy : the right of self-determination in international law / Dan Kuwali -- ch. 3. The OAU doctrine on colonial boundaries and conflicts of separation in the Horn of Africa / Kidane Mengisteab. -- pt. 2. Non-colonial creation successful secession case : South Sudan. ch. 4. Political history of Southern Sudan before independence of the Sudan / Samson Samuel Wassara -- ch. 5. Sudan first civil war for self-determination -- ch. 6. Second civil war creation of the united 'New Sudan' / Leben Nelson Moro. pt. 3. Colonial creation unsuccessful cases of self-determination: Somaliland and Zanzibar. ch. 7. Guests in our houses: Somaliland and British colonialism / Ladan Affi -- ch. 8. Less and more than the sum of its parts : the failed merger of Somaliland and Somalia and the tragic quest for 'Greater Somalia' / Abdirahman Yusuf Duale (Bobe) -- ch. 9. Identifying challenges against winning an international recognition and its prospects : the case of Somaliland / Adam Haji-Ali Ahmed -- ch. 10. The Zanzibar secessionist sentiments : can regional integration theory provide insights into the phenomenon? / Francis Matambalya. pt. 4. Identity groups claiming secession that failed. ch. 11. Why Katanga's quest for self-determination and secession failed / Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo / ch. 12. Nigeria and the Biafran war of secession : when national unity triumphs over self-determination? / Godwin Onuoha and Cyril Obi -- ch. 13. The paradoxes of secessionism among Tuarag in northern Mali / Ole Martin Gaasholt. pt. 5. Colonially created, annexed by neighbouring countries cases. ch. 14. Namibia's negotiation to independence / Henning Melber -- ch. 15. Eritrea a colonial creation : a case of aborted decolonisation / Redie Bereketeab -- ch. 16. The arduous quest of the Saharawi people for self-determination : the complexities of unachieved decolonization / Belkacem Iratni.