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Epistemologies of African conflicts : violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47348] Title Information:	violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone
[NT 47261] Author:	WaiZubairu, 1973-
[NT 47353] Alternative Intellectual Responsibility:	WaiZubairu, 1973-
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	New York, NY
[NT 47263] Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2012
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource.
[NT 47266] Subject:	Civil war - Historiography. - Africa -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Violence - Historiography. - Africa -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Research - Political aspects - Africa. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Africanists - Attitudes -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Eurocentrism. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	HISTORY / Historiography -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137280800
[NT 47265] Notes:	Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--York University, Toronto, 2010, originally presented under the title: Interpretations of African conflicts : power, knowledge and the discourse of violence on the Sierra Leone civil wars.
[NT 51398] Summary:	This book offers a bold, ground-breaking epistemological critique of the dominant discourses on contemporary African conflicts. Based on a detailed and painstaking examination of the dominant ways in which the Sierra Leone civil war has been interpreted, theorized, and understood, author Zubairu Wai considers how Africa is constructed as a site of knowledge and the power political implications that this construction has for the continent and its people. Wai situates the current discourses on contemporary African conflicts within the centuries-long Eurocentric conceptions of Africa conceived of and conveyed through various systems of knowledge, socio-historical and political processes, and practices of representation. He also investigates the historical linkages between Africanism and a Western will to power that since the fifteenth century has also perfectly espoused and necessitated an Africanist will to truth. Identifying evolutionism as a major condition of Africanist knowledge linked to systems of power, this book ultimately argues that the scripts of these conflicts are always already written long before the first shots are fired. Thus, the prediclment of Africanist discourses emanates not only from the conceptual limitations of the "colonial library" and evolutionist epistemology, but also these discourses' devotion to the power and knowledge regimes of the Western will to power that makes them possible.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9781137280800electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	1137280808electronic bk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	Sierra Leone, Conflict and the Will to Truth Evolutionism and the Africanist Project The Idea of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone: A Decade of War The Conflict of Interpretations Sierra Leone Inflections and Amplifications Coda: Africanism, Conflicts and the Will to Truth. Introduction : Sierra Leone, conflict and the will to truth Evolutionism and the Africanist project The idea of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone : a decade of war The conflict of interpretations Sierra Leone inflections and amplifications Coda : Africanism, conflicts and the will to truth.

Epistemologies of African conflicts : violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone
Wai, Zubairu

Epistemologies of African conflicts : violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone / Zubairu Wai. - New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 1 online resource..
Sierra Leone, Conflict and the Will to Truth.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--York University, Toronto, 2010, originally presented under the title: Interpretations of African conflicts : power, knowledge and the discourse of violence on the Sierra Leone civil wars.Description based on print version record..
Includes bibliographical references..
ISBN 9781137280800ISBN 1137280808
Civil warViolenceResearchAfricanistsEurocentrism.HISTORY / Historiography -- Historiography. -- Historiography. -- Political aspects -- Attitudes -- Africa -- Africa -- Africa.

Wai, Zubairu

Epistemologies of African conflicts : violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone
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