NARRATING WAR AND PEACE IN AFRICA
Solimar Otero & Hetty Ter Haar
Publisher: University of Rochester Press (USA) 2010
Hardback - 408 pages
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Interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of post-colonial violence as tribal in nature, and offer instead various perspectives, across disciplinary boundaries, that foster a less sensational, more contextualised understanding of African war, peace, and memory.