At the center of many of Africa's violent conflicts are movements that do not seem to fit any established theories of armed resistance. "African Guerrillas" offers new models for understanding these movements, eschewing one-dimensional explanations. The authors build on - and in some cases debate - the insights provided in Christopher Clapham's groundbreaking work. They find a new generation of fighters - one that reflects rage against the machinery of a dysfunctional state. Their analysis of this phenomenon, combining thematic chapters and a range of representative case studies, is a crucial contribution to any effort to understand Africa's war-torn societies.

Introduction /Morten Bøås and Kevin C. Dunn -- African guerrilla politics: raging against the machine? / Morten Bøås and Kevin C. Dunn -- Marginalized youth / Morten Bøås -- Whither the separatist motive? / Pierre Englebert -- Liberia: the LURDs of the new church / William S. Reno -- Côte d'Ivoire: negotiating identity and citizenship / Richard Banégas and Ruth Marshall-Fratani -- The Democratic Republic of Congo: militarized politics in a "failed state" / Denis M. Tull -- Uganda: the Lord's resistance army / Kevin C. Dunn -- Sudan: the Janjawiid and government militias / Øystein H. Rolandsen -- Senegal: the resilient weakness of Casamançais separatists / Vincent Foucher -- Angola: how to lose a guerrilla war / Assis Malaquias -- African guerrillas revisited / Christopher Clapham.