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Mediations of violence in Africa : fashioning new futures from contested pasts / edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters. - 1st ed. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. - xviii, 265 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.. - African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, v. 5 1574-6925 ; . - African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 5. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making memories of Mogadishu in Somali poetry about the civil war / Lidwien Kapteijns -- The road, the song and the citizen : singing after violence in KwaZulu-Natal / Liz Gunner -- Maisha bora, kwa nani? A cool life, for whom? Mediations of masculinity, ethnicity, and violence in a Nairobi slum / Naomi van Stapele -- Testimonies of suffering and recasting the meanings of memories of violence in post-war Mozambique / Victor Igreja -- Suffering and healing in the aftermath of war and genocide in Rwanda : mediations through community-based sociotherapy / Annemiek Richters -- "The balsak in the roof " : bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts / Diana Gibson.

ISBN: 9789004185364 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9004185364 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010013406

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB053603 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015536151 Uk 22166679 bccb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Violence--Social aspects--Africa--Case studies.
Political violence--Social aspects--Africa--Case studies.
War and society--Africa--Case studies.
Collective memory--Africa--Case studies.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa--History--1960-

LC Class. No.: HN780.Z9 / V564 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 303.660967 / KAP