Ransoming the state: Elite origins of subaltern terror in Sierra Leone

Review of African Political Economy

Volumn 26, Issue 81, 1999, Pages 349-366

  Kandeh, Jimmy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELITE POLITICS; STATE ROLE; VIOLENCE;

SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 0033391348     PISSN: 03056244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03056249908704398     Document Type: Article

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