In this comprehensive study of contemporary African armed violence, Paul D. Williams examines the proliferation of wars and conflicts across sub-Saharan Africa after the end of the Cold War, and seeks to explain not only how many and what kinds of conflicts occur, but also why they happen and what is (or is not) done about them. The book offers a comparative assessment of hundreds of conflicts …
the lack of economic opportunities for the younger sons of established families
There should be no need to justify the study of history. The past is worth studying becouse it is not dead but very much alive.
Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams is a veteran aviator whose name and knowledge are synonymous not only with the era of the daring young men in their flying machines, but with the development of aircraft both as a means of transportation and an instrument of war.