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Title: Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth, & Resources in Sierra Leone (African Issues Series) by Paul Richards ISBN: 0-435-07406-7 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 02 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Fighting for Comprehension
Comment: Paul Richards writes this book from a controversial -- and certainly not typical -- perspective. While refreshing in this innovation, the argument is poorly structured, and Richards' writing nearly impossible to follow. I found reading this work unbelievably frustrating, and the convoluted presentation of both fact and theory inappropriate to a work of social science. Where were the editors?!?
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth the reading time if you are a lover of African studies
Comment: Richards translates sucessfully the complex background history of the current Sierra Leonean crisis into a quantified language suitable for further policy research and study on similar models. His threading of Sierra Leonean nation state history with the ongoing conflict makes his work more active. It is a great upgraded handbook for readers who seek to de-mystify the African learning experience. In that same light Richards' book lacks emotional connection with pan-African political ideology.
Read it.
Rating: 4
Summary: I enjoyed this book, but had problems with certain analyses.
Comment: I feel that Richards' focus is to dispute Kaplan's New Barbarism theory, and for the most part is successful. He contends that the youth involved in the war point to political causes as their reason for fighting. This is the crux of his argument, yet I feel his evidence is not necessarily in line with such a bold statement. Chapter Four outlines his findings regarding how young people experience and react to war in contemporary Africa. While I agree that the New Barbarism theory does not consider this aspect, I do not agree with Richards' argument that these young people who are fighting the power are fully conscious of the political ramifications. My interpretations of Richards' interviews form my opinion, as I understood many of the young soldiers (particularly one named "Charlie") to have joined based on sheer survival, not due to political loyalties. While Richards tediously delineates the conflict in Sierra Leone from any inkling of the New Barbarism theory, I find it difficult to follow his argument from the angle of what is and what is not political. Part of providing a counterattack on a theory or supplying fodder for an original theory is to disprove the argument and then build yours. I feel Richards has dismantled New Barbarism, but does not necessarily provide the reader with the proper tools and equipment to rebuild it.
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Title: Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa by Charles Piot ISBN: 0226669696 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: African Guerrillas by Christopher Clapham, Christopher S. Clapham ISBN: 025321243X Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones by Greg Campbell ISBN: 0813339391 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: So Long a Letter (African Writers Series) by Mariama Ba ISBN: 0435905554 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 28 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Warlord Politics and African States by William Reno ISBN: 1555878830 Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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