“Cannibalism” and Power: Violence, Mass Media, and the Conflict in the Central African Republic

by Andrea Ceriana Mayneri The crisis in the Central African Republic is contributing to the reactivation of a longstanding mixture of memories, fears, and resentments among the population, which have been exacerbated by the more recent violence. Thus, the opposition between autochthonous Central Africans and foreign Muslims echoes the complex relations that have connected the Central African populations and the Muslim traders along the former slave-trading frontiers of Chad and Sudan since th..