Epistemologies of African Conflicts Violence, Evolutionism, and the
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
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Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone
Zubairu Wai
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Epistemologies of African Conflicts
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First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-1-137-28079-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wai, Zubairu, 1973Epistemologies of African conflicts : violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone / Zubairu Wai. p. cm. 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. ISBN 978-1-137-28079-4 (alk. paper) 1. Sierra Leone—History—Civil War, 1991–2002—Historiography. 2. Africa—Historiography. 3. Civil war—Africa—Historiography. 4. Violence—Africa—Historiography. 5. Research—Political aspects—Africa. 6. Africanists—Attitudes—Political aspects. 7. Eurocentrism. I. Wai, Zubairu, 1973– Interpretations of African conflicts. II. Title. DT516.826.W35 2012 907.209664—dc23
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