States of violence :  politics, youth, and memory in contemporary Africa / 
edited by Edna G. Bay and Donald L. Donham. 
 - ix, 268 pages ;  25 cm. 
 - Carter G. Woodson Institute series .
 - Carter G. Woodson Institute series. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Edna G. Bay ; Staring at suffering: violence as a subject / Donald L. Donham -- Modern states and the local definition of insiders/outsiders. The political economy of order amidst predation in Sierra Leone / William Reno ; Rotten fish: polarization, pluralism, and migrant-host : relations in Guinea-Bissau / Joanna Davidson -- Youth, gender, and generation. "Survival is political": history, violence, and the contemporary power struggle in Sierra Leone / Martha Carey ; Violent vigilantism and the state in Nigeria: the case of the Bakassi boys / Daniel Jordan Smith ; Mans is ma soe: ganging practices in Manenberg, South Africa, and the ideologies of masculinity, gender, and generational relations / Elaine Salo -- The social construction of forgetting and remembering violence. Memory, forgetting, and the Alexandra rebellion of 1986 / Belinda Bozzoli ; Veterans, violence, and nationalism in Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander and JoAnn McGregor ; Memory and violence in postgenocide Rwanda / Timothy Longman and Théoneste Rutagengwa. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>081392569X 9780813925691 0813925509 9780813925509 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006006847 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Violence--Africa<br/>Social conflict--Africa
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Social conditions--1960-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN780.Z9  / V577 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.609609045