Abdel-Fatau Musah and J. 'Kayode Fayemi (editors), Mercenaries: An African Security Dilemma. London: Pluto Press, 2000.
Paperback, card wraps, 21.5 x 13.5 cm, 334 pages.
Very good condition.
Presentation inscription signed by J. 'Kayode Fayemi, Director of the Centre for Democracy and Development - a non-profit organization headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria.
Security issues are a fundamental dynamic in the struggle for democracy and development in Africa. The mercenary industry injects an additional destabilising factor into conflicts not only through the added impoverishment and impunity that the trade brings into societies, but also because mercenarism stands at the base of arms proliferation, the narcotics business, banditry and gross human rights violations on the continent.
This volume provides the first comprehensive assessment of the many different manifestations and consequences of the mercenary trade in Africa. Published as part of the Centre for Democracy and Development's research and advocacy project on the privatisation of security, it constitutes an integral part of the CDD's strategic Conflict Management and Peace-building Programme. The collection brings together an international array of authors who are both for and against the presence of private military companies / mercenaries on the continent. Despite their differing opinions, all contributors are united in the view that an understanding of this issue is critical for the successful peaceful conflict transformation in a region suffused with sectarian and resource-driven conflicts. Mercenaries: an African Security Dilemma is an invaluable contribution to, and an alternative voice in, this ongoing debate.
There has been a pressing need for this study, which examines the connections between African conflicts, the extraction of minerals, and the use of private military companies. (Lord Avebury, from the Foreword)
Abdel-Fatau Musah is the Research and Publications Co-ordinator at the CDD.
'J. Kayode Fayemi is the Director of the CDD.
'Published in association with the Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD).
