Child Soldiers in Africa
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Child Soldiers in Africa by Alcinda Honwana
In Child Soldiers in Africa Alcinda Honwana brings her firsthand experience with child soldiers in Angola and Mozambique to shed light on how children are recruited, what they encounter, and how they come to terms with what they have done."Groundbreaking"—PsycCRITIQUES
"Mandatory reading for anyone who wants to embark on the difficult task of understanding more fully the complex realities of child soldiering in Africa and elsewhere."—Modern African Studies
"This well-structured and multifaceted analysis of child soldiering would be useful reading for researchers and scholars."—Journal of Peace Research
"What Honwana eloquently reminds us in Child Soldiers is that there are millions of children around the globe whose lives have been hijacked to serve the egotistical purposes of adults too caught up in their own self-centered agendas to care what happens to future generations."—PsychCRITIQUES (American Psychological Association)
Alcinda Honwana is Professor and Chair in International Development, The Open University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812219876 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812219872 |
| Title | Child Soldiers in Africa |
| Author | Alcinda Honwana |
| Series | The Ethnography Of Political Violence |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2007-01-24 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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