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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
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++++ The Amistad Revolt: Struggle For Freedom reprint John Warner
Barber, Arthur Abraham Amistad Committee, 1840 Social Science;
Slavery; Antislavery movements; Slave insurrections; Social Science
/ Slavery
This anthology reflects the complex processes in the production of
historical knowledge and memory about Sierra Leone and its diaspora
since the 1960s. The processes, while emblematic of experiences in
other parts of Africa, contain their own distinctive features. The
fragments of these memories are etched in the psyche, bodies, and
practices of Africans in Africa and other global landscapes; and,
on the other hand, are embedded in the various discourses and
historical narratives about the continent and its peoples. Even
though Africans have reframed these discourses and narratives to
reclaim and re-center their own worldviews, agency, and experiences
since independence they remained, until recently, heavily
sedimented with Western colonialist and racialist ideas and
frameworks. This anthology engages and interrogates the differing
frameworks that have informed the different practices-professional
as well as popular-of retelling the Sierra Leonean past. In a
sense, therefore, it is concerned with the familiar outline of the
story of the making and unmaking of an African "nation" and its
constituent race, ethnic, class, and cultural fragments from
colonialism to the present. Yet, Sierra Leone, the oldest and
quintessential British colony and most Pan-African country in the
continent, provides interesting twists to this familiar outline.
The contributors to this volume, who consist of different
generations of very accomplished and prominent scholars of Sierra
Leone in Africa, the United States, and Europe, provide their own
distinctive reflections on these twists based on their research
interests which cover ethnicity, class, gender, identity formation,
nation building, resistance, and social conflict. Their
contributions engage various paradoxes and transformative moments
in Sierra Leone and West African history. They also reflect the
changing modes of historical practice and perspectives over the
last fifty years of independence.
Various African nations have undergone conflict situations since
they gained their independence. This book focuses on particular
countries that have faced conflict (civil wars and genocide) and
are now in the process of rebuilding their political, economic,
social, and educational institutions. The countries that are
addressed in the book include: Rwanda, Mozambique, Sierra Leone,
Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition,
there is a chapter that addresses the role of the African Diaspora
in conflict and post-conflict countries that include Eritrea,
Liberia, and Somalia. The book includes an examination of the
various actors who are involved in post-conflict rebuilding and
reconstruction that involves internal and external participants.
For example, it is clear that the internal actors involve Africans
themselves as ordinary citizens, members of local and national
governments, and members of non-governmental organizations. This
allows the reader to understand the agency and empowerment of
Africans in post-conflict reconstruction. Various institutions are
addressed within the context of the roles they play in establishing
governance organizations such as the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission in Sierra Leone, the African Union, chiefs in Liberia,
and non-governmental organizations. Furthermore, the external
actors who are involved in post-conflict reconstruction are
examined such as international non-governmental organizations and
the African Diaspora. They both have their own constituents and
agendas and can and do play a positive and negative role in
post-conflict reconstruction. It is obvious that countries that are
addressed in the book are in dire need of financial assistant to
rebuild much needed infrastructure that was destroyed during the
conflict. All of the countries covered in the book need schools,
medical facilities, roads, bridges, airports, ports, and the
government does not have the money to provide these. This is where
the international non-governmental organizations and the African
Diaspora play an important role. The chapters that address these
issues are cognizant of their importance and at the same time, the
authors realize that sovereignty can be undermined if Africans are
not in the forefront of policy and decision making that will
determine their future. There are chapters that provide a gendered
analysis of post-conflict when it is appropriate. For example, it
is clear that women, men, boys, and girls experienced conflict in
different ways because of their gender. They all participated in
the conflict in various ways. Consequently, the efforts at peace
building are given a gendered analysis in terms of what has
happened to women and girls in the demobilization and
rehabilitation period including an excellent analysis of land
reform in Rwanda and how that affects women and members of a
certain ethnic group that are often overlooked in the examination
of the 1994 genocide. This book provides a very good contribution
to the literature on conflict and post-conflict African countries
because of its depth and the vast topics it embraces. It provides
an analysis of the internal and external actors, the role of gender
in post-conflict decision making, and it provides the voices of
ordinary Africans who were affected by the conflict, and who are
determined to live productive lives.
This anthology reflects the complex processes in the production of
historical knowledge and memory about Sierra Leone and its diaspora
since the 1960s. The processes, while emblematic of experiences in
other parts of Africa, contain their own distinctive features. The
fragments of these memories are etched in the psyche, bodies, and
practices of Africans in Africa and other global landscapes; and,
on the other hand, are embedded in the various discourses and
historical narratives about the continent and its peoples. Even
though Africans have reframed these discourses and narratives to
reclaim and re-center their own worldviews, agency, and experiences
since independence they remained, until recently, heavily
sedimented with Western colonialist and racialist ideas and
frameworks. This anthology engages and interrogates the differing
frameworks that have informed the different practices-professional
as well as popular-of retelling the Sierra Leonean past. In a
sense, therefore, it is concerned with the familiar outline of the
story of the making and unmaking of an African "nation" and its
constituent race, ethnic, class, and cultural fragments from
colonialism to the present. Yet, Sierra Leone, the oldest and
quintessential British colony and most Pan-African country in the
continent, provides interesting twists to this familiar outline.
The contributors to this volume, who consist of different
generations of very accomplished and prominent scholars of Sierra
Leone in Africa, the United States, and Europe, provide their own
distinctive reflections on these twists based on their research
interests which cover ethnicity, class, gender, identity formation,
nation building, resistance, and social conflict. Their
contributions engage various paradoxes and transformative moments
in Sierra Leone and West African history. They also reflect the
changing modes of historical practice and perspectives over the
last fifty years of independence.
Various African nations have undergone conflict situations since
they gained their independence. This book focuses on particular
countries that have faced conflict (civil wars and genocide) and
are now in the process of rebuilding their political, economic,
social, and educational institutions. The countries that are
addressed in the book include: Rwanda, Mozambique, Sierra Leone,
Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition,
there is a chapter that addresses the role of the African Diaspora
in conflict and post-conflict countries that include Eritrea,
Liberia, and Somalia. The book includes an examination of the
various actors who are involved in post-conflict rebuilding and
reconstruction that involves internal and external participants.
For example, it is clear that the internal actors involve Africans
themselves as ordinary citizens, members of local and national
governments, and members of non-governmental organizations. This
allows the reader to understand the agency and empowerment of
Africans in post-conflict reconstruction. Various institutions are
addressed within the context of the roles they play in establishing
governance organizations such as the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission in Sierra Leone, the African Union, chiefs in Liberia,
and non-governmental organizations. Furthermore, the external
actors who are involved in post-conflict reconstruction are
examined such as international non-governmental organizations and
the African Diaspora. They both have their own constituents and
agendas and can and do play a positive and negative role in
post-conflict reconstruction. It is obvious that countries that are
addressed in the book are in dire need of financial assistant to
rebuild much needed infrastructure that was destroyed during the
conflict. All of the countries covered in the book need schools,
medical facilities, roads, bridges, airports, ports, and the
government does not have the money to provide these. This is where
the international non-governmental organizations and the African
Diaspora play an important role. The chapters that address these
issues are cognizant of their importance and at the same time, the
authors realize that sovereignty can be undermined if Africans are
not in the forefront of policy and decision making that will
determine their future. There are chapters that provide a gendered
analysis of post-conflict when it is appropriate. For example, it
is clear that women, men, boys, and girls experienced conflict in
different ways because of their gender. They all participated in
the conflict in various ways. Consequently, the efforts at peace
building are given a gendered analysis in terms of what has
happened to women and girls in the demobilization and
rehabilitation period including an excellent analysis of land
reform in Rwanda and how that affects women and members of a
certain ethnic group that are often overlooked in the examination
of the 1994 genocide. This book provides a very good contribution
to the literature on conflict and post-conflict African countries
because of its depth and the vast topics it embraces. It provides
an analysis of the internal and external actors, the role of gender
in post-conflict decision making, and it provides the voices of
ordinary Africans who were affected by the conflict, and who are
determined to live productive lives.
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