Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution : with a New Foreword on the Postwar TransitionAgainst All Odds is the firsthand account of Eritrea's epic 30-year struggle for political independence and social justice. With almost no outside support, Eritrean nationalists brought successive U.S.- and Soviet-backed Ethiopian governments to their knees. At the same time, they worked to liberate women, workers and peasant farmers from centuries of grinding poverty, chronic hunger and numbing oppression. Connell argues that it was the blending of a social revolution with political objectives that enabled this uniquely self-reliant liberation front to weld Eritrea's fractious society - half Christian, half Muslim, from nine ethnic groups - into one of the most remarkable fighting forces in modern history. In a new Afterword, he describes their efforts to translate wartime values and experience into sustainable strategies for developing the new country. |
Contents
On the Road to Eritrea | 1 |
Inside Asmara | 9 |
Fah | 27 |
The Battle for the Past | 47 |
Hearts and Minds | 61 |
Marx vs Marx vs Marx | 73 |
Liberating the Towns | 93 |
A Model Village | 109 |
Behind Enemy Lines | 179 |
The Dispossessed | 195 |
Famine | 213 |
New Directions | 227 |
The Challenge of Peace | 245 |
Looking Ahead | 263 |
The Postwar Transition | 279 |
For further information | 309 |
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Addis Ababa Adi Qayeh Afabet Africa Agordat armed Asmara associations Barka base battle began campaign camps captured civilian colonial commander committee cultural Decamare democratic Derg early economic EPLF EPLF cadres EPLF fighters EPLF leaders EPLF's Eritrea Ethiopian Army Ethiopian forces ethnic Fana farmers fighting foreign Goitom grain guerrilla Haile Selassie highlands independence internal Isaias Isaias Afwerki issues Italian joined Kassala Keren Khartoum land later launched liberation front liberation movement living Massawa Mendefera Mengistu ment military months Muslim Nacfa nationalist organizations parties peasants people's PFDJ political population Red Sea refugees regime region relief revolution revolutionary road rural Sabbe Sahel Sebhat Sebhat Ephrem social society struggle Sudan Sudanese tanks Tessenei Tigray Tigrinya tion told took towns TPLF troops trucks units village women workers Zagher