Narrating War and Peace in Africa

by Falola, Toyin; Haar, Hetty Ter

• ISBN13: 9781580463300
• ISBN10: 1580463304
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc

Summary

While Africa has experienced conflict throughout its history, those wars of the latter half of the twentieth century seem to have defined and reinforced the myth of barbarism: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume strive to address the reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offers instead various perspectives to foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg. Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Narrating War and Peace in Africa	p. 1
Struggles for Independence
Wars of Words: Enlisting Colonial Languages in the Fight for Independence in Africa	p. 21
Alternative Representations of War in Africa: New Times and Ethiopia News Coverage of the 1935-41 Italian-Ethiopian War	p. 44
All's Well in the Colony: Newspaper Coverage of the Mau Mau Movement, 1952-56	p. 56
Ungendering Conflicts, Engendering Peace
Pedagogies of Pain: Teaching ôWomen, War, and Militarism in Africaö	p. 79
Women and War: A Kenyan Experience	p. 98
Mass Rape as a Weapon of War in the Eastern DRC	p. 113
Mozambique: The Gendered Impact of Warfare	p. 141
Narrative Strategies and Visions of Peace
Acting as Heroic: Creativity and Political Violence in Tuareg Theater in Northern Mali	p. 155
Representations of War and Peace in Selected Works of Ben Okri	p. 180
Visions of War, Testaments of Peace: The ôBurdenö of Sierra Leone	p. 195
The Duty to Remember
(Re)Writing the Massacre of Thiaroye	p. 231
In Search of Lost Kabyles in Mehdi Lallaoui's La colline aux oliviers	p. 241
ôLament for the Casualtiesö: The Nigerian War of 1967-70 and the Poetry of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo	p. 271
Bibliography	p. 281
List of Contributors	p. 309
Index	p. 313
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