Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- list of illustrations -- PROLOGUE -- HISTORICISING SAWABA -- -- part i -- DELIVERANCE, -- CONQUERED AND LOST -- Chapter One -- The rise of the UDN, 1946-1957 -- Niger's First Political Party -- Djibo Bakary and the PPN-RDA -- The Righter of Wrongs: Towards the Union Démocratique Nigérienne -- Agitation and Manoeuvres, 1954-1956 -- The Triumph of the Camel -- chapter two -- To revolutionary supremacy, March 1957-May 1958 -- Sawaba as Government -- Tam-Tam: Canvassing in the Late 1950s -- Riot in April -- Bar Rivoli: Consummating Victory -- chapter three -- The challenge of the Fifth Republic -- The Love for All Peoples -- The Blackmail of Isolation -- Ali Amadou and de Gaulle on the Place Protêt -- The Hour of Sputnik -- chapter four -- A referendum -- A Corsican Coup -- Defections and Regrouping -- Campaigning -- Polling -- chapter five -- Declining fortunes -- Deceit and Dissolution: The Break-Up of the Assembly -- Elections -- Pistols and Polling Booths: Campaigning under Harassment -- Fall -- part II -- PREPARING FOR RELIEF -- chapter six -- Going underground, 1958-1961 -- A French Colony -- Government Architecture and Party Mobilisation -- We Celebrated Independence in Our Cell:  Patterns and Themes of Emerging Opposition -- chapter seven -- Building to undermine, 1959-1962 -- Noms de Plume and Lorry Drivers: Early Communication, Funding and Intelligence -- Shock Troops: Early Agitation, Meetings and Missions -- The Bars of Zinder: Towns and Agitation -- chapter eight -- Repression, dissension, and the road to arms -- Siberia -- I Forgot To Tell -- Discord -- Nobody Can Overthrow the Government -- The Sole Grounds for My Existence -- chapter nine -- Training cadres and commandos, 1958-1969 -- To More Forgiving Heavens -- Recruitment.

From Sabongari to Villa Lotus: Building a Pan-African Network -- Living off the Cold War -- 'Sawaba Educated Us' -- Cut off from Niger: Militants for the Cause -- Dining with Chou En-lai -- To Mount a Rebellion -- part iII -- fighting for DELIVERANCE -- chapter ten -- Infiltrations, 1960-1964 -- Awaken the People: The Southern Network and the Nigerian Hinterland -- He Flew over Agadez: Infiltrations in the North and the Algerian Connection -- Infiltrations in Western Niger -- Camouflage Your Action -- Infrastructure -- chapter eleven -- Regime responses, 1962-1964 -- The Bedroom of the Ambassador -- The State of the Regime -- Foreign Relations -- Espionage -- Death in the Courtyard -- The People of the Coast -- 1964 -- chapter twelve -- Guerrilla war, July-December 1964 -- The Battle Begins -- Attack-If Need Be With Sticks! -- Organisation, Strategy and Tactics -- October -- The Presidential Gardens -- New Assaults, Fresh Reprisals -- chapter thirteen -- Guerrilla war, 1965-1966 -- The Counteroffensive of the Franco-RDA Combine -- Enemy Territory -- The Scorpion -- One Has to Strike -- The Man of 13 April -- The Last Military Operations -- Concluding Observations -- chapter fourteen -- The road of honour: The destruction of a social movement, 1965-1974 -- Torture -- Persecution and the Loss of Asylum -- The Years of Darkness -- The Voice of a Woman -- The Tears of Our Mothers and Sisters -- EPILOGUE -- AFTERMATH AND MEMORY -- -- The Return to the World -- The Rebellion in the History of Niger -- A Social Movement on the Battlefield -- Our Problem was a Problem with France -- Sawaba in the Era of Democratisation -- Trauma -- ANNEXES -- Annex 1 -- Sawaba documents -- Annex 2 -- Niger -- a. ANN (Archives Nationales du Niger) -- b. From Private Sources -- c. Main Nigérien Periodicals Used (non-Sawaba publications) -- annex 3 -- FRANCE.

a. CAOM (Centre des archives d'outre-mer, Aix-en-Provence) -- b. SHAT (Service Historique de l'Armée de Terre), Vincennes -- c. Archives Diplomatiques. Série D.A.M. (Direction des Affaires Africaines et Malgaches), sous-série Niger, 1959-1969, Paris. -- annex 4 -- Ghana -- GNA (Ghana National Archives) -- annex 5 -- United Kingdom -- PRO (Public Record Office) -- annex 6 -- United States -- annex 7 -- Interviews -- Bibliography -- I Secondary Sources on Niger * -- II Other Secondary Sources -- index.