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The Eritrean National Service: Servitude for the common good and the Youth Exodus
Gaim Kibreab
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Description for The Eritrean National Service: Servitude for the common good and the Youth Exodus
Hardback. Gives voice to the conscripts who are forced to serve indefinitely without remuneration under the ENS in a powerful critical survey of its effect from the Liberation Struggle to today. Series: Eastern Africa Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFGE; JPV; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
The Eritrean National Service (ENS) lies at the core of the post-independence state, not only supplying its military, but affecting every aspect of the country's economy, its social services, its public sector and its politics. Over half the workforce are forcibly enrolled into it by the government, driving the country's youth to escape national service by seeking employment and asylum elsewhere. Yet how did the ENS, which began during the 1961-91 liberation struggle as part of the idea of the common good - in which individual interests were sacrificed in pursuit of the grand scheme of independence and ... Read more
The Eritrean National Service (ENS) lies at the core of the post-independence state, not only supplying its military, but affecting every aspect of the country's economy, its social services, its public sector and its politics. Over half the workforce are forcibly enrolled into it by the government, driving the country's youth to escape national service by seeking employment and asylum elsewhere. Yet how did the ENS, which began during the 1961-91 liberation struggle as part of the idea of the common good - in which individual interests were sacrificed in pursuit of the grand scheme of independence and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
James Currey
Condition
New
Series
Eastern Africa Series
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847011602
SKU
V9781847011602
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99-50
Reviews for The Eritrean National Service: Servitude for the common good and the Youth Exodus
A detailed and comprehensive assessment of this central instrument of state power in Eritrea...drawing on survey and interview data collected from former ENS conscripts, now living abroad, the book presents a deeply complex picture of the programme and its influence. AFRICAN AFFAIRS This book makes a vital contribution to an important and pressing political and ... Read more