Disagreement: Dissent politics and the war in Sierra Leone

Africa Today

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 3-22

  Hoffman, Danny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; VIOLENCE; WAR; YOUNG POPULATION;

AFRICA; SIERRA LEONE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33846523380     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/at.2006.0029     Document Type: Article

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