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Author Honwana, Alcinda Manuel, author.

Title Child soldiers in Africa / Alcinda Honwana
Published Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages) : maps
Series The ethnography of political violence
Ethnography of political violence.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Civil Wars in Mozambique and Angola -- 2. Historical and Social Contexts -- 3. Recruitment and Initiation -- 4. Young Women -- 5. Healing Child Soldiers and Their Communities -- 6. Looking to the Future and Learning from the Past -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 27, 2018)
Subject Child soldiers -- Africa
Children and war -- Africa
Children and violence -- Africa
Political violence -- Africa
Children.
Military Personnel
Warfare
Child
children (people by age group)
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Children
Child soldiers
Children and violence
Children and war
Political violence
Kind
Soldat
Child soldiers.
Armed conflicts.
Political conflicts.
SUBJECT Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531
Africa https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000349
Subject Africa
Angola
Moçambique
Africa.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812204773
0812204778