The Eritrean National Service: Servitude for the Common Good and the Youth Exodus

by Gaim Kibreab

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.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847011608
• ISBN13: 9781847011602
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"