@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {14648},
      author = {Daly, Samuel Fury Childs},
      title = {Soldier′s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire},
      address = {2024},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = { In Soldier’s Paradise, Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the  story of how Africa’s military dictators tried and failed  to transform their societies into martial utopias. Across  the continent, independence was followed by a wave of  military coups and revolutions. The soldiers who led them  had a vision. In Nigeria and other former British colonies,  officers governed like they fought battles—to them,  politics was war by other means. Civilians were subjected  to military-style discipline, which was indistinguishable  from tyranny. Soldiers promised law and order, and they saw  judges as allies in their mission to make society more like  an army. But law was not the disciplinary tool soldiers  thought it was. Using legal records, archival documents,  and memoirs, Daly shows how law both enabled militarism and  worked against it. For Daly, the law is a place to see  decolonization’s tensions and ironies—independence did not  always mean liberty, and freedom had a militaristic streak.  In a moment when militarism is again on the rise in Africa,  Daly describes not just where it came from but why it  lasted so long. },
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/14648},
}