CONTENTS List of Maps Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Jacqueline Knorr & Wilson Trajano Filho (PRE-)COLONIAL LEGACIES Patrimonial Logic of Centrifugal Forces in the Political History of the Upper Guinea Coast William P. Murphy Insurrection as Socioeconomic Change: Three Rebellions in Guinea/Sierra Leone in the Eighteenth Century Bruce Mouser Kouankan and the Guinea-Liberian Border James Fairhead A Saucy Town? Regional Histories of Conflict, Collusion, and Commerce in the Making of a Southeastern Liberian Polity Elizabeth Tonkin 'Traditional' Jola Peacemaking: From the Perspectives of an Historian and an Anthropologist Peter Mark & Jordi Tomas REVISITING THE POLITICS OF ELITE CULTURE The Creole Idea of Nation and its Predicaments: The Case of Guinea-Bissau Wilson Trajano Filho The Mutual Assimilation of Elites: The Development of Secret Societies in Twentieth Century Liberian Politics Stephen Ellis Out of Hiding? Strategies of Empowering the Past in the Reconstruction of Krio Identity Jacqueline Knorr THE POWER AND POLITICS OF MEMORIES Map and Territory: The Politics of Place and Autochthony among Baga Sitem (and their Neighbours) Ramon Sarro The Invention of Bulongic Identity (Guinea-Conakry) David Berliner Victims and Heroes: Manding Historical Imagination in a Conflict-ridden Border Region (Liberia-Guinea) Christian K. Hojbjerg CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN INTERGENERATIONAL AND GENDER RELATIONS Are 'Child Soldiers' in Sierra Leone a New Phenomenon? Susan Shepler Generating Rebels and Soldiers: On the Socio-Economic Crisis of Rural Youth in Sierra Leone before the War Krijn Peters Index
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