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Epistemologies of African conflicts violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone /

This book offers a bold, ground-breaking epistemological critique of the dominant discourses on African conflicts. Based on a painstaking study of the ways in which the Sierra Leone civil war has been interpreted, it considers how Africa is constructed as a site of knowledge and the implications tha...

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Main Authors: Wai, Zubairu
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Africanists > Attitudes > Political aspects
Violence > Historiography > Africa
Civil war > Historiography > Africa
Political science & theory > Africa
Armed conflict > Africa
Politics and Government
Sierra Leone > History > Historiography > Civil War, 1991-2002
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137280800
Summary: This book offers a bold, ground-breaking epistemological critique of the dominant discourses on African conflicts. Based on a painstaking study of the ways in which the Sierra Leone civil war has been interpreted, it considers how Africa is constructed as a site of knowledge and the implications that this has for the continent and its people.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137280794, 2012.
Carrier Form: 282 p.
ISBN: 9781137280794
9781137280800 :
1137280808 :
CLC: K834.145.89
Contents: Sierra Leone, Conflict and the Will to Truth Evolutionism and the Africanist Project The Idea of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone: A Decade of War The Conflict of Interpretations Sierra Leone Inflections and Amplifications Coda: Africanism, Conflicts and the Will to Truth.

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