Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone

Paul Richards

Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone
Format
Paperback
Publisher
James Currey
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 January 1996
Pages
240
ISBN
9780852553978

Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone

Paul Richards

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

Published in association with the International African Institute

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