Narrating War and Peace in Africa

A comprehensive volume that offers historical and nuanced representations of war and peace in Africa from the fields of African studies and cultural studies, linguistics, journalism and the media, literature, film, drama and performance, women's and gender studies, and human rights.

Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture — mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries — with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict an...