Part I: Conceptualisation and performance of national liberation movements-cum-governments
Introduction: Understanding national liberation movements / Redie Bereketeab
Varieties of African liberation movement governments / M.A. Mohamed Salih
Liberation movements and the "democratic deficit" / John Markakis
Part II: Liberation struggles against European colonisation
The MPLA government and its post-liberation record in Angola / Paulo Ingles
From former liberation movement to four decades in government: the maintenance of the Frelimo state / Adriano Nuvunga
From Cabral's liberation movement to power struggle and ideological erosion: the decline of PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau / Birgit Embaló
From anticolonial liberation movement to ruling party: the FLN in Algeria / Yahia H. Zoubir
Part III: Liberation struggles against white minority rule
The African National Congress: from liberation movement to neoliberal state manager / Patrick Bond
ZANU-PF in power in Zimbabwe, 1980-2013: towards explaining why former liberation movements fail as governments / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Part IV: Liberation struggles against annexation by neighbouring countries
Struggle mentality versus democracy: the case of SWAPO of Namibia / Henning Melber
Problems of transition to civic governance in Eritrea / Redie Bereketeab
Understanding rebellion in South Sudan / Leben Nelson Moro
Part V: Liberation struggles for reform (regime change)
Liberation movements turned governments: the Ugandan experience / George G. Okiror
Ethiopia: the quest for transformation under EPRDF / Kassahun Berhanu
Liberation struggle for regime change: Somaliland's transition from conflict to civilian government / Michael Walls
Between the devil and the deep blue sea: the birth and breakdown of Somali armed movements, 1976-99 / Mohamed Haji Ingiriis.