The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa

Abstract

The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa is a collection of fifty-six chapters edited by Bernard Mlambo and Ezra Chitando. The individual chapters are authored by scholars with expertise in African studies and profound knowledge of conflicts in Africa. The book is divided into seven different parts discussing systematically the key elements of African culture, and the cultural mechanisms that create, sustain, resist, and mitigate violence in Africa. The book enumerated the enormous role violence has played in the continent’s affairs, before, during, and after Western rule and dominance. The book also pays detailed attention to theoretical emphases on the link between violence in Africa and other factors such as colonialism, regionalism, race, gender, warfare, statecraft, elections, apartheid, technology, etc. It also attends to theorises between violence and political regimes in Africa.