Review Essays
Topical Foci: Human Rights in Africa
Assessing the Concept of Human Rights in Africa by Paul J. Magnarella
Human Rights in Africa: The Conflict of Implementation by Richard Amoako Baah. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000. 123pp.
Publish Not Punish: The Contested Truth of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Todd Landman
After the TRC: Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa, Wilmot James and Linda van de Vijver, Editors. Athens: Ohio University Press and Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 2000. 228pp.
Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa , Charles Villa-Vicencio and Wilhelm Verwoerd, Editors. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press and London: Zed Books, 2000. 322pp.
Horror Unmasked: Truth or Fiction? by Lars Buur and Eric Harper
A Country Unmasked: Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Alex Boraine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 448pp.
Explaining Rwanda's 1994 Genocide by Paul Magnarella
When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda by Mahmood Mamdani. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. 364pp.
Genocide in Rwanda: A Collective Memory edited by John A. Berry and Carol Pott Berry. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1999. 201pp.
Appreciating Silence by Ronald C. Slye
Bearing Witness: Women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa by Fiona C. Ross. London: Pluto Press, 2003. 240pp.
Politics and International Justice in a World of States by J. Peter Pham
War Crimes and Realpolitik: International Justice from World War I to the 21st Century by Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004. 267 pp.
Legitimacy, Justice, and the Future of Africa by J. Peter Pham
Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Philip J. McConnaughay. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 308 pp.
Making Sense of a Senseless War By J. Peter Pham
A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone by Lansana Gberie. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.
Young Soldiers: Why They Choose to Fight by Rachel Brett and Irma Specht. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.
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