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Title: | Nomadic Society, Civil War, and the State in Chad |
Author: | Fuchs, Peter |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Nomadic Peoples |
Issue: | 38 |
Pages: | 151-162 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Chad |
Subjects: | civil wars nomads Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government nationalism |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43123478 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the role played by nomadic societies during thirty years of civil war in Chad. The civil war in Chad broke out in 1965. The rebellion of the Tubu, a cultural group from northern Chad, was provoked by the repression of the Chadian military administration. In the beginning the Tubu fought their own war against the Tombalbaye regime. In 1968 they joined the maquis of the Frolinat (Front de libération nationale du Tchad). The tactics of the Chadian guerrilla were nomadic and successful. They consisted in applying the means of mobility and diversification of (economic) activities to warfare. The rebellion against the regime of Tombalbaye was not, in the eyes of the nomads, a revolution against the existing postcolonial system. Contrary the founders of the Frolinat, whose aim was to create a 'socialist society', the nomads never had the intention of 'changing society'. Their aim was simply a new distribution of power in Chad which was mainly in the hands of the 'southerners' (i.e. the sedentary peasants of southern Chad). The author concludes, however, that a so-called 'nomadic State' is not realizable, because the social and political structures of nomads contrast with structures essential for the State. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in French and Spanish. |