Since the advent of a new democratic dispensation in South Africa in 1994, the metaphor of the ‘‘Rainbow Nation’’, first coined by Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has become the symbol of peace and ...

The focus in this dissertation is on the rise of secessionism and its curtailment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Theories pertaining to centre-periphery relations, as well as right-sizing the state, are used ...