1st Edition

Violence and Non-Violence in Africa

Edited By Pal Ahluwalia, Louise Bethleham, Ruth Ginio Copyright 2007
230 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This unique volume seeks both to historicize and to deconstruct the pervasive, almost ritualistic, association of Africa with forms of terrorism as well as extreme violence, the latter bordering on and including genocide. Africa is tendentiously associated with violence in the popular and academic imagination alike. Written by leading authorities in postcolonial studies and African history, as... Read more

Introduction: ‘Unsettling Violence', Pal Ahluwalia, Louise Bethlehem and Ruth Ginio  1. The Glorious Violence of Amada Seyon of Ethiopia, Steven Kaplan  2. The Unwritten History of Ethnic Co-Existence in Colonial Africa: An Example from Douala, Cameroon, Lynn Schler  3. The Vulgarization of Politics: Ethnic Violence in Kenya, Pal Ahluwalia    4. Sacral Spaces in Two West African Cities, AbdouMaliq Simone  5. The ‘RuggedLife’: Youth and violence in Southern Nigeria, David Pratten   6. Security and Violence on the Frontier of the State: Vigilant Citizens in Nkomazi, South Africa, Steffen Jensen   7. ‘Keeping the Peace’: Violent Justice, Crime and Vigilantism in Tanzania, Megan G. Plyler   8. Mellow Yellow: Image, Violence, and Play in Apartheid South Africa, John Peffer   9. Childhood in the Shadow of Violence: Kathorus, South Africa, Vanessa Barolsky   10. To Live With It, Adam Sitze

Biography

Pal Ahluwalia, Louise Bethleham, Ruth Ginio