Mediations of violence in Africa: Fashioning New Futures from contested pasts
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TextPublication details: Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2010. Description: xviii, 265 Pages; 24 cmISBN: 9781868145294DDC classification: 303.660967 MEDI Summary: This publication analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda. This volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies
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This publication analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda. This volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies
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