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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: POSTCOLONIAL SECURITY STUDIES

Volume 1

MILITARY POWER AND POLITICS
IN BLACK AFRICA

MILITARY POWER AND POLITICS
IN BLACK AFRICA

Edited by

SIMON BAYNHAM

First published in 1986 by Croom Helm

This edition first published in 2021

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1986 Simon Baynham

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Military Power and Politics
in Black Africa

Edited by

SIMON BAYNHAM

1986 Simon Baynham

Croom Helm Ltd, Provident House, Burrell Row,

Beckenham, Kent BR3 1AT

Croom Helm Australia Pty Ltd, Suite 4,6th Floor,

64-76 Kippax Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Military power and politics in black Africa.

1. Africa, Sub-Saharan Politics and government,

1960- 2. Africa, Sub-Saharan Armed

Forces Political activity

I. Baynham, Simon

322.50967 JQ1875.A1

ISBN 0-7099-32804

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham Ltd, Kent

CONTENTS

List of Tables

The Authors

Preface and Acknowledgements

Simon Baynham

2. MILITARY RULE IN AFRICA: ETIOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY

Samuel Decalo

3. MILITARY DISENGAGEMENT FROM POLITICS?: INCENTIVES AND OBSTACLES IN POLITICAL CHANGE

Claude E. Welch, Jr.

4. ARMIES AND POLITICS IN CIVILIAN REGIMES

David Goldsworthy

5. REVOLUTIONARY ARMIES OF AFRICA: MOZAMBIQUE AND ZIMBABWE

Annette Seegers

6. PAX AFRICANA?

Dennis Austin

7. ARMIES ON LOAN: TOWARD AN EXPLANATION OF TRANSNATIONAL INTERVENTION AMONG BLACK AFRICAN STATES: 196085

Arnold Hughes and Roy May

8. FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN AFRICA

Anthony Clayton

9. ARMS CONTROL IN AFRICA

Abbott A. Brayton

10. SOUTH AFRICAS MILITARY RELATIONS WITH ITS NEIGHBOURS

J.E. Spence

4.1 African States Ranked by Per Capita Income

8.1 The Supply of Arms by Non-African Countries to Sub-Saharan Africa (Excluding South Africa)

9.1 World Socio-Economic Trends, 196079

9.2 World Military Trends, 196079

9.3 Regional Military Expenditures (MILEX): 1977 Actual Figures (and percentile increase, 196978)

9.4 African Military Expenditures (MILEX): 1977 Actual Figures (and percentile increase, 196978)

9.5 Size of African Armed Forces, 1983

9.6 Arms Transfers to African States, 197478

9.7 Value of Arms Transfers as a Percentage of Total Arms Levels

Strategic Studies (London).

Anthony Clayton, who is Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, earned his doctorate at St. Andrews University after a career in the Kenya Colonial Government. He is co-author (with D.C. Savage) of Government and Labour in Kenya 18951963 (1975) and author of The Zanzibar Revolution and its Aftermath (1981) and Counter-Insurgency in Kenya 195256 (1985). Currently writing two books on British and French military forces in Africa, A Super-Power at Work: The British Empire 191939 and France, Soldiers and Africa , Dr. Clayton previously served in the British Territorial Army, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Intelligence Corps.

Samuel Decalo is Professor and Head of the Department of African Studies at the University of Natal. Since obtaining his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1970, he has taught at the University of Botswana and the University of the West Indies. He has carried out extensive field research in many parts of Africa and is author of Military Rule in Africa: Studies in Military Style (1976) as well as several other books and dozens of other articles on African politics and international relations.

David Goldsworthy is Reader in Politics at Monash University and Secretary of the African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific. Educated at the University of Adelaide and Oxford University, Dr. Goldsworthy currently specialises in Development Theory and African Politics. In addition to many other publications, he has written Colonial Issues in British Politics (1971) and Tom Mboya (1982).

Arnold Hughes is Lecturer in Political Science at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, where he teaches African Nationalism and Contemporary African Politics. Over the past two decades he has travelled and researched extensively in West Africa. Apart from an interest in the role of the military, he has published numerous articles in learned journals and contributed to several books on Gambian and Nigerian politics, pan-Africanism and modernisation theory. He is currently preparing a book on Gambian politics.

Dennis Austin is Emeritus Professor of Government at the University of Manchester and was formerly a research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on Africa including Politics in Ghana 194660 (1964), Britain and South Africa (1966), Commonwealth in Eclipse (1972) and Politics in Africa (1978).

Simon Baynham, who received his doctorate from the London School of Economics in 1982, is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He spent a year at the University of Ghana in the mid-1970s and has recently returned from two years at the University of Cape Town where he taught Third World Politics and from where he undertook extensive fieldwork on the security forces of South Africa, Namibia and the frontline states. Author of The Military and Politics in Nkrumahs Ghana (1986), he has written numerous articles on African politics and civil-military relations.

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