Violence in the Postcolony

Abikal Borah is Assistant Professor of History at San Diego State University. His research focuses on entangled histories of race and violence in pre-apartheid South Africa. He is coeditor (with Mobolanle E. Sotunsa) of Imagining Vernacular Histories: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in The Journal of African History, Africa Today, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and Review: Fernand Braudel Center.

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and the Nigerian Academy of Letters and has served as the President of the African Studies Association in the United States. He is the author of numerous works, including Global Yorùbá: Regional and Diasporic Networks, Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria, and The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization. He has also published three memoirs: A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir, Counting the Tiger's Teeth: An African Teenager's Story, and Malaika and the Seven Heavens: A Memoir of My Encounters with Islam.

Part I: Introduction
1. Violence in the Postcolony: Africa's Entangled Pasts, by Abikal Borah and Toyin Falola
Part II: Entangled Histories
2. Collective Memory and Historical Denials: Local Conflicts and the End of Apartheid, by Jill E. Kelly
3. History, Violence, and Memory in Sudan, by Amir Idris
4. Making Sense of Political Violence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe, by Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Busani Mpofu
Part III: Forms of Violence
5. Rethinking Symbolic Violence in Colonial-Era Algeria through Personal Names, by Benjamin Claude Brower
6. Rally Day: The Urban Landscape of Postcolonial Political Violence in Sierra Leone, by Daniel J. Hoffman
7. Marketplaces, Identities, and Political Conflicts on the Jos Plateau, by Barira Mohammed
Part IV: Violence and Its Sacred Forms
8. Production of Violence in Postcolonial Africa: The Role of Sacred and Secular Sources, by Nimi Wariboko
9. The Ghosts of Colonialism: Religious Violence in Postcolonial Nigeria, by Toyin Falola
Part V: Displacement, Migration, and Xenophobic Violence
10. Encountering the Genocidaire: A Genocide of Rwandan Refugees, by Christopher P. Davey
11. Totalities and Community: Exploring the Roots of Xenophobic Violence in an Informal Settlement in Pretoria, by Sepetla Molapo
12. Political Violence and Population Displacement in Postcolonial Uganda, by Ogenga Otunnu
Part VI: Violence in Cultural Forms
13. Entangled Temporalities of Postcolonial Violence in Kenyan Literature, by Meghan Gorman-Darif
14. Violence in Postcolonial African Performance, by Toyin Falola
Part VII: Conclusion
15. Whither the Postcolony? Looking into the Future, by Toyin Falola
Bibliography
Index