Remembering Genocides in Central Africa

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Titre Remembering Genocides in Central Africa
Type de publication Livre
Langue principale de la publication anglais
Année de publication 2021
Auteur René LEMARCHAND
Nombre de pages 170
Éditeur Routledge
Ville London
Genre essai - étude
Pays d'édition Royaume-Uni
ISBN (Forme EAN-13) 9780367654153
Résumé/Présentation "Scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences. Through a blend of personal memories and historical analysis, and informed by a lifelong experience of research in Central Africa, the author challenges conventional wisdom and suggests a new perspective for making sense of the appalling brutality that has accompanied the region’s post-independence trajectories. / All four states adjacent to Rwanda are inhabited by Hutu and Tutsi and thus contained in germ the potential for ethnic conflict, but only in Burundi did this potential reach genocidal proportions when, in 1972, in response to a local insurrection, at least 200,000 Hutu civilians were killed by a predominantly Tutsi army. By widening his analytic lens the author shows the critical importance of the Burundi bloodshed to an understanding of the roots of the Rwanda genocide, and in later years the significance of the mass murder of Hutu civilians by Kagame’s Tutsi army, not just in Rwanda but in the Congo. [...]' (site de l'éditeur, 09.2021)
Référence complète Lemarchand, René. Remembering Genocides in Central Africa. Loindon : Routledge, 2021, 170 p., ill.

Auteurs

René LEMARCHAND

Biographie : " René Lemarchand joined the faculty of Political Science at the University of Florida (UF) in 1962 as a young man , and soon became the University’s first director of its Center for African Studies. Born in France in 1932, he received his PhD from UCLA. / He is known for his research on Africa’s Great Lakes region, notably Burundi’s 1972 genocide and the 1994 Rwandan genocide. As professor emeritus, he has continued to write, teach and consult internationally, including regarding Darfur, Abidjan, and Ghana. / His 12 books include Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo (California, 1964); Rwanda and Burundi (Praeger, 1970), which received the coveted Herskovits Book Prize; and Remembering Genocides in Central Africa. (Routledge, 2021). / With intellectual detours to southern Africa, Libya, and the Sahel, as well as comparative work embracing Cambodia and Bosnia, Lemarchand published about Burundi and Rwanda long before their genocidal turns, on matters of kingship, clientelism, and violence. In his many articles and books – in English and French – he has written about the concept of clientelism ; mass violence, witnessing, and memory politics; myth-making and ethnicity ; political instability, traditional systems, armies and nation-building ; and State collapse, transition anarchies, and ethnic re-stratifications." (Un. of Florida, 09.2021)
Nationalité : France