TY - BOOK AU - Bereketeab,Redie TI - Self-determination and secession in Africa: the post-colonial state SN - 9781138790810 (hardback) U1 - 320.15 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Self-determination, National KW - Africa KW - Secession KW - Decolonization KW - politics and government KW - 1960- KW - History KW - Autonomy and independence movements N1 - 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 ER -