Product Description: Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a mostly international media the information of African wars is confined to narrow categories of explanation emerging from and adapted to a Western history and political culture...read more

Product Description: Examining US involvement in the Horn of Africa, this volume addresses the relationship between the US and the Islamic movement in this region. Peter Woodward explores the interests of the United States in the region through two cases: Sudan and Somalia...read more

Product Description: One of the foremost political experts on Ethiopia has written a first-hand account of the conflict at the forefront of Ethiopia's recent history. Ranging from personal interviews with Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki to reports from the front line, Paul Henze analyses the confrontation Eritrea provoked by invading Ethiopia in May 1998 and explores the deep background of the conflict and the tendentious mythology of the EPLF...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, which began in May 1998, took the world by surprise. During the war, both sides mobilized huge forces along their common borders and spent several hundred million dollars on military equipment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)