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

Title
  1. Epistemologies of African conflicts : violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone / Zubairu Wai.
Published by
  1. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Author
  1. Wai, Zubairu, 1973-

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Description
  1. xvii, 263 p.; 23 cm
Subject
  1. Research > Political aspects > Africa
  2. Violence > Africa > Historiography
  3. Civil war > Africa > Historiography
  4. Sierra Leone > History > Civil War, 1991-2002 > Historiography
  5. Africa > Historiography
  6. Africanists > Attitudes > Political aspects
  7. Eurocentrism
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. Sc D 14-292
Note
  1. 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.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-249) and index.
Author
  1. Wai, Zubairu, 1973-
Title
  1. Epistemologies of African conflicts : violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone / Zubairu Wai.
Imprint
  1. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-249) and index.
Added author
  1. Wai, Zubairu, 1973- Interpretations of African conflicts.
LCCN
  1. 2012035089
Other standard identifier
  1. 40021710616
ISBN
  1. 9781137280794 (alk. paper)
  2. 1137280794 (alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc D 14-292
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