"Most of the chapters of this volume come from a larger collection o f papers produced for a conference held in 2000 under the auspices of t he Research Programme 'Poverty and Prosperity in Africa: Local and Glob al Perspectives' at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden"--Pref .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Violence and belonging: analytical reflections / Vigdis Broch-Due -- "Nowadays they can even kill you for that which they feel is the irs": gender and the production of ethnic identity in Kikuyu-speaking C entral Kenya / Amrik Heyer -- Conflicts in context: political vio lence and anthropological puzzles / Harri Englund -- Hunger, viol ence and the moral economy of war in Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander, Jo Ann McGregor -- Violence and the boundaries of belonging: com paring two border disputes in the South African lowveld / Isak Nieha us -- Fertile moral links: reconsidering Barabaig violence / Astr id Blystad -- "Food itself is fighting with us": a comparative analy sis of the impact of Sudan's civil war on South Sudanese civilian popul ations located in the North and the South / Sharon Elaine Hutchinson -- The politics of identity and the remembrance of violence: ethnic ity and gender at the installation of a female chief in Zimbabwe / B jèorn Lindgren -- Double-voiced violence in Kenya / John G. Galat y -- Escape from genocide: the politics of identity in Rwanda's mass acres / Johan Pottier -- Women and the politics of identity: voic es in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Fiona C. Ross -- Ambiguous identities: the notion of war and "significant others" among the Tigreans of Ethiopia / Kjetil Tronvoll.