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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.
This book examines the multifaceted nature of conflict and the
importance of the socio-economic and political contexts of conflict
and violence and shows how to support ongoing initiatives and
programs to build sustainable peace on the African continent.
Drawing on a range of conceptual framings in the study of peace and
conflict, from gender perspectives to institutionalist to
decolonial perspectives, the contributors show how peacebuilding
research covers a whole range of questions that go beyond concerns
for post-conflict reconstruction strategies. Chapters focus on the
methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of peacebuilding
and provide a toolbox of perspectives for conceptualizing and doing
peacebuilding research in Africa. Anchored in African-centered
perspectives, the book encourages and promotes high-quality
interdisciplinary research that is conflict-sensitive, historically
informed, theoretically grounded and analytically sound. This book
will be of benefit to scholars, policy makers and research
institutions engaged in peacebuilding in Africa.
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.
This book examines the multifaceted nature of conflict and the
importance of the socio-economic and political contexts of conflict
and violence and shows how to support ongoing initiatives and
programs to build sustainable peace on the African continent.
Drawing on a range of conceptual framings in the study of peace and
conflict, from gender perspectives to institutionalist to
decolonial perspectives, the contributors show how peacebuilding
research covers a whole range of questions that go beyond concerns
for post-conflict reconstruction strategies. Chapters focus on the
methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of peacebuilding
and provide a toolbox of perspectives for conceptualizing and doing
peacebuilding research in Africa. Anchored in African-centered
perspectives, the book encourages and promotes high-quality
interdisciplinary research that is conflict-sensitive, historically
informed, theoretically grounded and analytically sound. This book
will be of benefit to scholars, policy makers and research
institutions engaged in peacebuilding in Africa.
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