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4/2/07

SLU PROF TO DISCUSS BOOK ON ANGOLA

CANTON - The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at St. Lawrence University will celebrate the publication of Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-Colonial Angola, by Associate Professor of Government Assis Malaquias with an event on Friday, April 6, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young Library. Malaquias will speak at the celebration, which is open to the public, free of charge.

The book, about the political economy of violence, 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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