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AFRICA: MISSING VOICES SERIES
This series addresses issues and topics that have been overlooked in political, social, and historical discussions about Africa.
No. 1 ∙ Grassroots Governance?: Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean
Edited by D.I. Ray and P.S. Reddy · Copublished with the International
Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA)
No. 2 ∙ The African Diaspora in Canada: Negotiating Identity and Belonging
Edited by Wisdom Tettey and Korbla Puplampu
No. 3 ∙ A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada and South Africa
By Joan G. Fairweather
No. 4 ∙ New Directions in African Education: Challenges and Possibilities
Edited by S. Nombuso Dlamini
No. 5 ∙ Shrines in Africa: History, Politics, and Society
Edited by Allan Charles Dawson
No. 6 ∙ The Land Has Changed: History, Society and Gender in Colonial Eastern Nigeria
By Chima J. Korieh
No. 7 ∙ African Wars: A Defense Intelligence Perspective
By William G. Thom
No. 8 ∙ Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance,
and Development
Edited by Donald I. Ray, Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma, and Tacita A.O. Clarke
No. 9 ∙ The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria,
1948–2000
By Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu
No. 10 ∙ Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana By Linda Kreitzer
No. 11 ∙ Secession and Separatist Conflicts in Postcolonial Africa
By Charles G. Thomas and Toyin Falola
© 2020 Charles G. Thomas and Toyin Falola
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Secession and separatist conflicts in postcolonial Africa / Charles G. Thomas
and Toyin Falola.
Names: Thomas, Charles G., 1979- author. | Falola, Toyin, author.
Series: Africa, missing voices series ; no. 11. ISSN 1703-1826
Description: Series statement: Africa: missing voices series, ISSN 1703-1826 ;
no. 11 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190214708 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190214775 |
ISBN 9781773851266 (softcover) | ISBN 9781773851273 (Open Access PDF) |
ISBN 9781773851280 (PDF) | ISBN 9781773851297 (EPUB) | ISBN
9781773851303 (Kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Secession—Africa—History—20th century. | LCSH: Africa—
History—Autonomy and independence movements.
Classification: LCC DT30.5 .T56 2020 | DDC 320.1/5096—dc23
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