"By focusing on the participation and consequences for ordinary
people, this collection offers a fresh perspective on the eruption
of violence in sub-Saharan Africa. None of the contributions takes
the easy way out -- either by claiming any special propensity of
Africans to violence, or by calling attention to titillating
aspects of the violence itself. Rather, they offer 'thick
descriptions' of particular violent episodes to develop their
contexts and the larger causes that made them happen. The case
studies, drawn from field research in Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria,
Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, search for the
meaning of specific instances of collective violence to the
individuals caught up in them." -- Nelson Kasfir, Dartmouth College
"This coherently assembled set of contributions illuminates
crucial aspects of the disorder and insecurity afflicting much of
contemporary Africa. The potent social force of a marginalized
youth generation is explored in its different manifestations in a
variety of settings by an excellent roster of scholars." --
Crawford Young, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University
of Wisconsin, Madison
"Unmatched in its ethnographic depth and attention to critical
dimensions of African conflicts.... This volume cuts across the
continent and across several intertwining themes to provide highly
contextual analyses within a well-definedframework." -- Catherine
Besteman, Colby College, editor of "Violence: A Reader "
The essayists whose work is collected here -- historians,
anthropologists, and political scientists -- bring their diverse
disciplinary perspectives to bear on various forms of violence that
have plagued recent Africanhistory. Exploring violence as part of
political economy and rejecting stereotypical explanations of
African violence as endemic or natural to African cultures, the
essays examine a continent where the boundaries on acceptable force
are always shifting and the distinction between violence by the
state and against the state is not always clear.
Edna G. Bay, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at
Emory University, is author of "Wives of the Leopard: Gender,
Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey "(Virginia). Donald
L. Donham, Professor of Anthropology at the University of
California, Davis, is author of "Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic
History of the Ethiopian Revolution."
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