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War, Politics and Justice in West Africa

Essays 2003 - 2014

By: Gberie, Lansana

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War, Politics and Justice in West Africa

Essays 2003 - 2014

By: Gberie, Lansana

This book collects articles and reviews the author wrote for various publications, academic and journalistic, over the past 10 to 14 years. They are not arranged in chronological order, but there is a consistent underlying theme: the author’s reaction to war, politics and transitional justice in Africa, with a particular focus on Sierra Leone and Liberia. He has studied these two countries more intimately than all others; but this book includes articles on Ivory Coast, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Sierra Leonean Writers Series

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9991092188

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A Dirty War in West Africa

The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone

By: Lansana Gberie

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A Dirty War in West Africa

The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone

By: Lansana Gberie

Since 1991, this West African nation has been brought to its knees by a series of coups, violent conflicts, and finally, outright war. The war has ended today, but it is clear that things are hardly settled. Focusing on the group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), journalist Lansana Gberie exposes the corruption and appalling use of rape and mutilation as tactics to overthrow the former government. Gberie looks closely at the rise of the RUF and its ruthless leader, Foday Sankoh, as he seeks to understand the personalities and parties involved in the war.

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246

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Indiana University Press

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0253218551

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9780253218551

The Heart of the Matter

Sierra Leone, Diamonds & Human Security : Complete Report

By: Ian Smillie,Lansana Gberie,Ralph Hazleton

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The Heart of the Matter

Sierra Leone, Diamonds & Human Security : Complete Report

By: Ian Smillie,Lansana Gberie,Ralph Hazleton

How diamonds have been the cause of widespread death, misery, & destruction for almost a decade in the West African country of Sierra Leone. Through the 1990s, Sierra Leone's rebel war became a tragedy of major humanitarian, political & historic proportions, but the story goes back 60 years, to the discovery of the diamonds. The diamond mining sector has become influenced by organized crime & by the smuggling not just of diamonds, but of guns & drugs, & by vast sums of money in search of a laundry. No peace agree. would be sustainable until the problems of mining & selling diamonds had been addressed, both inside Sierra Leone & internationally. Tables.

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DIANE Publishing

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A Dirty War in West Africa

The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone

By: Lansana Gberie

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The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone

By: Lansana Gberie

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The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone

By: Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley,Ismail Rashid

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The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone

By: Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley,Ismail Rashid

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.

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Lexington Books

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0739180037

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The Heart of the Matter

Sierra Leone, Diamonds & Human Security : Complete Report

By: Ian Smillie,Lansana Gberie,Ralph Hazleton

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Sierra Leone, Diamonds & Human Security : Complete Report

By: Ian Smillie,Lansana Gberie,Ralph Hazleton

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Book's by Lansana Gberie

War, Politics and Justice in West Africa

War, Politics and Justice in West Africa

A Dirty War in West Africa

A Dirty War in West Africa

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

A Dirty War in West Africa

A Dirty War in West Africa

The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone

The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

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