East Africa after Liberation

Jonathan Fisher is Reader in African Politics in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham and Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State, South Africa. His research focuses on the intersection between authoritarian rule, political transformation and in/security in East Africa. His work has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Facebook and the Newton Fund and has been published in journals such as African Affairs, International Affairs and World Development.

• Introduction; Part I. Insurgency: 1. East Africa's post-liberation elite and the legacy of insurgency I: movement, state and society; 2. East Africa's post-liberation elite and the legacy of insurgency II: from rebellion to government; Part II. Liberation: 3. From rebels to diplomats: pragmatism, aspiration and mistrust, 1986–1995; 4. Reinventing liberation: revolution and regret in Congo and Sudan, 1995–2000; Part III. Crisis: 5. The disintegration of the Liberation Coalition,1998–2007; 6. From regional conflict to domestic crisis: regime consolidation and the fragmentation of the Old Guard, 2000–07; Conclusion.

'Jonathan Fisher's superb study of post-liberation regimes in Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Rwanda has much to tell us, not only about the states concerned, but about the legacies of liberation war more widely.' Christopher Clapham, University of Cambridge