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11/27/06

SLU PROF'S BOOK LOOKS AT POST-COLONIAL ANGOLA

CANTON - Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-Colonial Angola, about the political economy of violence, is a new book by St. Lawrence University Associate Professor of Government Assis Malaquias. It was published in October 2006, by the Nordic Africa Institute.

Its publishers state, "This book provides the first comprehensive attempt at analyzing how the military and non-military dynamics of more than four decades of conflict created the structural violence that stubbornly defines Angolan society even in the absence of war. The book clearly demonstrates that the end of the civil war has not ushered in positive peace."

Malaquias explores Angolan continuities in the volume, especially the ways in which race, class, ethnicity and power have been used by governing elites as mechanisms to oppress the powerless.

Also St. Lawrence's associate dean of international and intercultural studies, Malaquias was named Extraordinary Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Malaquias has been a member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1996. He is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg and earned his master's degree and Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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