States of violence
Subtitle: politics, youth, and memory in contemporary Africa
By: edited by Edna G. Bay and Donald L. Donham.
Contributors: Bay, Edna G.; Donham, Donald L.
Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute series
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813925691
Subjects: Violence -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Youth -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions -- 1960-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Staring at suffering : violence as a subject / Donald L. Donham; title: The political economy of order amidst predation in Sierra Leone / William Reno; title: Rotten fish : polarization, pluralism, and migrant-host relations in Guinea-Bissau / Joanna Davidson; title: "Survival is political" : history, violence, and the contemporary power struggle in Sierra Leone / Martha Carey; title: Violent vigilantism and the state in Nigeria : the case of the Bakassi boys / Daniel Jordan Smith; title: Mans is ma soe : ganging practices in Manenberg, South Africa, and the ideologies of masculinity, gender, and generational relations / Elaine Salo; title: Memory, forgetting, and the Alexandra Rebellion of 1986 / Belinda Bozzoli; title: Veterans, violence, and nationalism in Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander and JoAnn McGregor; title: Memory and violence in postgenocide Rwanda / Timothy Longman and Théoneste Rutagengwa.