Mediating Violence from AfricaMediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of postCold War Francophone Africa. This violence, much of which unfolded in front of Western television cameras, included the use of child soldiers facilitated by the Soviet Unions castoff Kalashnikov rifles, the rise of Islamist terrorism in West Africa, and the