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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 25Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.Description: xxvii, 967 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 966.26 23
LOC classification:
  • DT547.75 .W35 2013eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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