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Disagreement: Dissent Politics and the War in Sierra Leone
- Africa Today
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 52, Number 3, Spring 2006
- pp. 3-22
- 10.1353/at.2006.0029
- Article
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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.