Narrating War and Peace in Africa

While Africa has experienced conflict throughout its history, those wars of the latter half of the twentieth century seem to have defined and reinforced the myth of barbarism: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume strive to address the reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offers instead various perspectives to foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory.

Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg.

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.

Details

First Published: 15 Oct 2010
13 Digit ISBN: 9781580463300
Pages: 342
Size: 9 x 6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Subject: African Studies
BIC Class: GTB

Details updated on 31 Jul 2010

Contents

• 1  Introduction: Narrating War and Peace in Africa
• 2  Wars of Words: Enlisting Colonial Languages in the Fight for Independence in Africa
• 3  Alternative Representations of War in Africa: New Times and Ethiopia News Coverage of the 1935-1941 Italian-Ethiopian War
• 4  All's Well in the Colony: Newspaper Coverage of the Mau Mau Movement, 1952-1956
• 5  Pedagogies of Pain: Teaching "Women, War, and Militarism in Africa"
• 6  Women and War: A Kenyan Experience
• 7  Mass Rape as a Weapon of War in the Eastern DRC
• 8  Mozambique: The Gendered Impact of Warfare
• 9  Acting as Heroic: Creativity and Political Violence in Tuareg Theater in Northern Mali
• 10  Representations of War and Peace in Selected Works of Ben Okri
• 11  Visions of War, Testaments of Peace: The "Burden" of Sierra Leone
• 12  (Re)Writing the Massacre of Thiaroye
• 13  In Search of Lost Kabyles in Mehdi Lallaoui's La colline aux oliviers
• 14  "Lament for the Casualties": The Nigerian War of 1967-1970 and the Poetry of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo