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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mahmood Mamdani |
ISBN: | 0691192340 9780691192345 |
OCLC Number: | 1059228955 |
Notes: | First published: 2001. |
Description: | xxvi, 364 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Mahmood Mamdani. |
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"A genuinely original contribution to understanding the Rwandan catastrophe."-Dissent "The strengths of the book are clear and admirable. . . . Anyone from now on who writes on identity in Central Africa-and there will be many-will have to wrestle with the case that Mamdani has made."-Jeffrey Herbst, Foreign Affairs "Few are better qualified to explain the tensions of post-colonial Africa than Mahmood Mamdani. . . . His Rwandan case-study provides powerful evidence that the Tutsis came to be crushed between colonist and native."-Richard Synge, Independent "[Mamdani's] analysis of Rwandese society, in particular the role of the church in the genocide, is fascinating."-Victoria Brittain, Guardian Read more...


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by Raf280292 updated 2020-09-12