Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction Narrating War and Peace in Africa 1
5. Part One Struggles for Independence
6. 1 Wars of Words: Enlisting Colonial Languages in the Fight for Independence in Africa 19
7. 2 Alternative Representations of War in Africa 44
8. 3 All’s Well in the Colony 56
9. Part Two Ungendering Confl icts, Engendering Peace
10. 4 Pedagogies of Pain: Teaching “Women, War, and Militarism in Africa” 77
11. 5 Women and War: A Kenyan Experience 98
12. 6 Mass Rape as a Weapon of War in the Eastern DRC 113
13. 7 Mozambique: The Gendered Impact of Warfare 141
14. Part Three Narrative Strategies and Visions of Peace
15. 8 Acting as Heroic: Creativity and Political Violence in Tuareg Theater in Northern Mali 153
16. 9 Representations of War and Peace in Selected Works of Ben Okri 180
17. 10 Visions of War, Testaments of Peace: The “Burden” of Sierra Leone 195
18. Part Four The Duty to Remember
19. 11 (Re)Writing the Massacre of Thiaroye 229
20. 12 In Search of Lost Kabyles in Mehdi Lallaoui’s La colline aux oliviers 241
21. 13 “Lament for the Casualties”: The Nigerian War of 1967–70 and the Poetry of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo 271
22. Bibliography 281
23. List of Contributors 309
24. Index 313