Africa's World War: Congo, The Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe, Gérard Prunier (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), viii + 529 pp., cloth 29.95, pbk. 19.95, Kindle eBook 9.99Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda, Timothy Longman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), xi + 350 pp., cloth 99.00, eBook 72.00
Gérard Prunier's considerable contributions to the study of Africa's Great Lakes region have elicited some controversy. His landmark study of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, The Rwanda Crisis (1997), was criticized by some for its overly sympathetic assessment of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 493-498 |
| Review of: | Africa's world war (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (Court, Anthony)
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| Summary: | Gérard Prunier's considerable contributions to the study of Africa's Great Lakes region have elicited some controversy. His landmark study of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, The Rwanda Crisis (1997), was criticized by some for its overly sympathetic assessment of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Prunier's latest contribution, Africa's World War, is both more critical and ambitious, placing the genocide in the broader context of the First and Second Congo Wars of September 1996–May 1997 and August 1998–July 2003. Prunier's premise is that “the perception gap between the international community and what was happening in Rwanda was enormous” (p. 37), a view applicable to much of Rwanda's modern history. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq048 |