Disagreement: Dissent Politics and the War in Sierra Leone
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Indiana University Press in Africa Today
- Vol. 52 (3), 3-22
- https://doi.org/10.1353/at.2006.0029
Abstract
Observers often characterize the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of youth. Understanding that crisis in political terms can be quite challenging. Applying the writings of theorist Jacques Rancière to events in Sierra Leone, I suggest a different understanding of politics, one that allows us to consider the violence of this war as a form of political speech.Keywords
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