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Epistemologies of African Conflicts

Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone

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  • © 2012

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  1. Zubairu Wai
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-14

  3. Evolutionism and the Africanist Project

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    Pages 15-57

  4. The Idea of Sierra Leone

    • Zubairu Wai
    Pages 59-91

  5. Sierra Leone

    • Zubairu Wai
    Pages 93-112

  6. The Conflict of Interpretations

    • Zubairu Wai
    Pages 113-170

  7. Sierra Leonean Inflections and Amplifications

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    Pages 171-225

  8. Coda

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    Pages 227-230

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 231-263
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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 a site of knowledge and the implications that this has for the continent and its people.

About the author

ZUBAIRU WAI is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University, Canada.

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