Samuel Fury Childs Daly (2024) - Soldiers’ Paradise
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Military History, Postcolonial Military Regimes, Lagos, NigeriaAbstract
Reviewed: Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Soldiers’ Paradise : Militarism in Africa after Empire, Durham, Duke University Press, 2024, 284 p
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