The yearning for relief: a history of the Sawaba Movement in Niger, by Klaas van Walraven

In "The Yearning for Relief" Klaas van Walraven traces the history of the Sawaba movement in Niger and its rebellion against the French-protected regime during the 1960s. The book analyses its guerrilla campaign and failure, followed by the movement’s destruction.

From the review by Jeffrey S. Ahlman in African Studies Review: 'As a whole, The Yearning for Relief is a monumental achievement. It is difficult to imagine a more thoroughly researched and multifaceted study of one of West Africa’s more underresearched “first-generation” nationalist parties.'

Read the entire review by Jeffrey S. Ahlman (2014), African Studies Review, 57, pp 212-213 doi:10.1017/asr.2014.106.

This book appeared in the Afrika-Studiecentrum Series, volume 25.