The Slippery Slopes into Civil War
Ogunmola, Dele
This book examines the complex of factors that resulted in the Sierra Leonean intra-state war and the first Ivorian Civil conflict. Qualitative field-data and interpretive methods are used to explore the validity of many assertions in the secondary sources, comparing respondents' views of the root-causes with experts' analyses to understand how and why these West African countries slipped into internecine fighting. It is demonstrated how manip...