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Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone

Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone

Richards, Paul

Paperback

Series: African Issues, Book 2

African HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0852553978
ISBN13: 9780852553978
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Jan 1 1996
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Examines the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity.

Do small wars in Africa manifest a 'new barbarism'?
What appears as random, anarchic violence is no such thing. The terrifying military methods of of Sierra Leone's soldiers may not fir conventional western models of warfare, but they are rational and effective nonetheless. The war must be understood partly as a 'performance', in which techniques of terror compensate for lack of equipment.

PAUL RICHARDS is Professor of Technology and Agrarian Development, Wageningen University

Published in association with the International African Institute

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