Fighting for the rain forest : war, youth & resources in Sierra Leone
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Fighting for the rain forest : war, youth & resources in Sierra Leone
(African issues)
International African Institute , James Currey , Heinemann, 1998
[2nd impression]
- : James Currey, pbk
- : Heinemann, pbk
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Fighting for the rain forest : war, youth and resources in Sierra Leone
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Description based on 4th impression, 2002
Reprinted with new postscript
6th impression published from: International African Institute in association with James Currey
First published 1996
"The International African Institute in association with James Currey, Oxford, Heinemann, Portsmouth (N.H.)"
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index
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: Heinemann, pbk ISBN 9780435074067
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'Fighting for the Rain Forest' explores the roots of the civil war in Sierra Leone and its manifestations in the forests amongst the country's youth.
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: James Currey, pbk ISBN 9780852553978
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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
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