TY - BOOK AU - Bay,Edna G. AU - Donham,Donald L. TI - States of violence: politics, youth, and memory in contemporary Africa T2 - Carter G. Woodson Institute series SN - 081392569X AV - HN780.Z9 V577 2006 U1 - 303.609609045 22 PY - 2006///] CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Violence KW - Africa KW - Social conflict KW - Social conditions KW - 1960- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -