By Stephen L. Weigert
This examine examines a political-military culture in sub-Saharan Africa which has survived colonialism in addition to the chilly struggle. 5 smooth African insurgencies are evaluated: Madagascar 1947, Kenya (Mau Mau) 1952-63, Cameroon (UPC) 1955-70, Congo/Zaire (Kwilu) 1964-8 and Mozambique (RENAMO) 1977-92. those case-studies display a power hyperlink among conventional African faith and modern nationalist events whose political in addition to army importance has usually been underestimated and infrequently misunderstood.
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Felix Moumie and eleven other UPC leaders fted to Cairo, Egypt. Ruben Urn Nyobc and Theodore Mayi Matip. who had formerly headed the UPC's youth wing, moved back into French Cameroon to lead their Bassa supporters. 9 The insurgents' plans to gradually expand the scope of their campaign were thwarted on 13 September 1958 when Urn Nyobe was killed in an ambush by French forces. His body was widely displayed in Bassa inhabited areas. Within months after Urn Nyobe's death, his second-in-command, Theodore Mayi Matip, and over 2500 guerrillas chose to avail themselves of the government's amnesty offer.
5 1 The financial costs of comhatting the Mau Mau insurgency were not so high that London felt compelled to end its colonial presence. Nevertheless, the cumulative impact of the efforts Britain had made in various corners of its global empire during the late 1940s and early 1950s convinced many in Parliament that colonialism was no longer an economically viable institution. When Kenya finally became independent in December 1963, it was merely one of several former British African colonies that had done so during the previous five years.
This left only a semi-educated leadership cadre with no connection to the detained central leadership element. 14 Colonial authorities sometimes described Mau Mau as the armed wing of the KAU. By arresting senior KAU members, however, British officials also had detained some of the movements' most moderate leaders. Consequently, the decapitated nationalist movement consisted primarily of an embryonic 'military wing' which also had to fill a 'political' void. 15 As colonial authorities soon discovered, efforts to prevent a rebellion by arresting its presumed leaders or pressuring some of them to denounce violence were at best belated, if not misguided.