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Epistemologies of African conflicts [electronic resource] : violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone / Zubairu Wai.

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This book offers a bold, ground-breaking epistemological critique of the dominant discourses on contemporary African conflicts. Based on a detailed and painstaking examination of the dominant ways in which the Sierra Leone civil war has been interpreted, theorized, and understood, author Zubairu Wai...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Wai, Zubairu, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Subjects:
Sierra Leone > History > Civil War, 1991-2002 > Historiography.
Africa > Historiography.
Civil war > Africa > Historiography.
Violence > Africa > Historiography.
Research > Political aspects > Africa.
Africanists > Attitudes > Political aspects.
Eurocentrism.
Historiography.
Research > Political aspects.
Violence > Historiography.
Africa.
Sierra Leone.
History.
Table of 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.
  • 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.

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