Book Blurb:

Conflicts in Africa in the last decades have been played out on a colonial stage. The set is changing as the power shifts from colonial, to post-colonial and modern society. The reasons for the conflicts are complex, and the motives that fuel individual groups in civil wars are difficult to unravel. Sometimes it seems the reasons are not at all clear to the antagonists themselves, or at least, they would never admit them, even to themselves. For example, the justification for exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo by foreign governments is a mixture of exaggeration, half-truth and outright deception. The war that has resulted is undeniable. Broken and twisted landscapes stand as a record of these wars. At the same time many places not destroyed are adapted, reused, and are in transition. They will for the most part endure, and the scars they carry can be recorded.

Guy Tillim