Epistemologies of African Conflicts [electronic resource] : Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone /
Wai, Z.author.
Wai, Zubairu,1973-Interpretations of African conflicts.
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.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--York University, Toronto, 2010, originally presented under the title: Interpretations of African conflicts : power, knowledge and the discourse of violence on the Sierra Leone civil wars.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : 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.
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.
Africa—Politics and government.
International relations.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Peace.
Political science.
African Politics.
International Relations.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Conflict Studies.
Political Science.