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A History of Genocide in Africa

Author : Timothy J. Stapleton
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 : 1440830525
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book A History of Genocide in Africa written by Timothy J. Stapleton and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has Africa been the subject of so many accusations related to genocide? Indeed, the number of such allegations related to Africa has increased dramatically over the past 15 years. Popular racist mythology might suggest that Africans belong to "tribes" that are inherently antagonistic towards each other and therefore engage in "tribal warfare" which cannot be rationally explained. This concept is wrong, as Timothy J. Stapleton explains in A History of Genocide in Africa: the many conflicts that have plagued post-colonial Africa have had very logical explanations, and very few of these instances of African warring can be said to have resulted in genocide. Authored by an expert historian of Africa, this book examines the history of six African countries—Namibia, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Nigeria—in which the language of genocide has been mobilized to describe episodes of tragic mass violence. It seeks to place genocide within the context of African history, acknowledging the few instances where the international legal term genocide has been applied appropriately to episodes of mass violence in African history and identifying the many other cases where it has not and instead the term has been used in a cynical manipulation to gain some political advantage. Readers will come to understand how, to a large extent, genocide accusations related to post-colonial Africa have often served to prolong wars and cause greater loss of life. The book also clarifies how in areas of Africa where genocides have actually occurred, there appears to have been a common history of the imposition of racial ideologies and hierarchies during the colonial era—which when combined with other factors such as the local geography, demography, religion, and/or economics, resulted in tragic and appalling outcomes.

A History of Genocide in Africa

Author : Timothy J. Stapleton
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 1440830517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book A History of Genocide in Africa written by Timothy J. Stapleton and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Namibia -- Rwanda -- Burundi -- Democratic Republic of Congo -- Sudan and South Sudan -- Nigeria -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Maps

A History of Genocide in Africa

Author : Timothy J. Stapleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A History of Genocide in Africa written by Timothy J. Stapleton and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a series of detailed case studies, this book presents the history of genocide in Africa within the specific context of African history, examining conflicts in countries such as Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Rwanda, and Sudan. Why has Africa been the subject of so many accusations related to genocide? Indeed, the number of such allegations related to Africa has increased dramatically over the past 15 years. Popular racist mythology might suggest that Africans belong to "tribes" that are inherently antagonistic towards each other and therefore engage in "tribal warfare" which cannot be rationally explained. This concept is wrong, as Timothy J. Stapleton explains in A History of Genocide in Africa: the many conflicts that have plagued post-colonial Africa have had very logical explanations, and very few of these instances of African warring can be said to have resulted in genocide. Authored by an expert historian of Africa, this book examines the history of six African countries--Namibia, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Nigeria--in which the language of genocide has been mobilized to describe episodes of tragic mass violence. It seeks to place genocide within the context of African history, acknowledging the few instances where the international legal term genocide has been applied appropriately to episodes of mass violence in African history and identifying the many other cases where it has not and instead the term has been used in a cynical manipulation to gain some political advantage. Readers will come to understand how, to a large extent, genocide accusations related to post-colonial Africa have often served to prolong wars and cause greater loss of life. The book also clarifies how in areas of Africa where genocides have actually occurred, there appears to have been a common history of the imposition of racial ideologies and hierarchies during the colonial era--which when combined with other factors such as the local geography, demography, religion, and/or economics, resulted in tragic and appalling outcomes.

Genocide in German South-West Africa

Author : Jürgen Zimmerer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Genocide in German South-West Africa written by Jürgen Zimmerer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1904 war that broke out in present day Namibia after the Herero tribe rose against an oppressive colonial regime--and the German army's brutal suppression of that uprising--are the focus of this collection of essays. Exploring the annihilation of both the Herero and Nama people, this selection from prominent researchers of German imperialism considers many aspects of the war and shows how racism, concentration camps, and genocide in the German colony foreshadow Hitler's Third Reich war crimes.

Africa's World War

Author : Gerard Prunier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199705832
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Africa's World War written by Gerard Prunier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's population--fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-D?sir? Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractible and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Praise for the hardcover: "The most ambitious of several remarkable new books that reexamine the extraordinary tragedy of Congo and Central Africa since the Rwandan genocide of 1994." --New York Review of Books "One of the first books to lay bare the complex dynamic between Rwanda and Congo that has been driving this disaster." --Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times Book Review "Lucid, meticulously researched and incisive, Prunier's will likely become the standard account of this under-reported tragedy." --Publishers Weekly

Genocide

Author : Norman M. Naimark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019976526X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Genocide written by Norman M. Naimark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This world history of genocide examines the longue duree of mass murder from the beginning of human history to the present. Cases of genocide are examined as distinct episodes of killing, but in connection with earlier episodes. Communist and anti-communist genocides are considered, as are cases of settler (or colonial) genocide.

The Rwanda Crisis

Author : Gérard Prunier
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850653721
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book The Rwanda Crisis written by Gérard Prunier and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 1998 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an up-to-date historical perspective which should enable readers to fathom how the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass in 1994, this volume includes a new chapter that brings the analysis up to the end of 1996. Gerard Prunier probes into how the genocidal events in Rwanda were part of a deadly logic - a plan that served central political and economic interests - rather than a result of primordial tribal hatreds, a notion often invoked by the media to dramatize genocide.

Remembering Genocides in Central Africa

Author : Rene Lemarchand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367654160
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Genocides in Central Africa written by Rene Lemarchand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the central African states of Rwanda, Burundi and DR Congo has been one of turmoil, violence and inter-ethnic conflict since independence. Rene Lemarchand explores the trajectory of this troubled period.

Genocide

Author : Norman M. Naimark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199765278
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Antecedents to Modern Rwanda

Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299201236
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Antecedents to Modern Rwanda written by Jan Vansina and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005-03-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda’s recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians and provides a bottom-up view, drawing on hundreds of grassroots narratives. He describes the genesis of the Hutu and Tutsi identities, their growing social and political differences, their bitter feuds, revolts, and massacres, and the relevance of this dramatic history to the post-genocide Rwanda of today. 2001 French edition, Katharla Publishers

Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa

Author : Christian P. Scherrer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313016178
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa written by Christian P. Scherrer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scherrer examines the ethnicized conflicts, periodic war, and genocide in Rwanda and Burundi. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda may have resulted in the murder of a million Tutsi and moderate Hutu, while the mass killings in Burundi, especially in 1993 when some 200,000 Hutu and Tutsi were killed, and the current ongoing war in the Congo appear to have the potential to escalate into another round of genocide in the region. Scherrer explores the background to the conflicts in the Great Lakes Region as well as what the international community might do to break this tragic cycle of violence and despair. Following a chapter on the history of the region before independence in 1960/61, he examines the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the subsequent attempts to promote justice, reconstruction, human rights work, and genocide prevention. Scherrer pays particular attention to the role of the Western powers, the UN, and the aid system--and he is critical of all of these institutions. He also analyzes what is happening in neighboring Burundi and the Congo. An important research for scholars and policymakers involved with Central African affairs and ethnicized conflict.

Civil Wars in Rwanda and Burundi

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
ISBN 13 : 0981425844
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Civil Wars in Rwanda and Burundi written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a historical survey and analysis of some of the bloodiest conflicts in modern times. The civil wars in Rwanda and Burundi, twin states in the Great Lakes region of East Africa, are often explained in simplistic terms even by some political pundits as mere tribal wars, rooted in anciet hatred, between the Hutu and the Tutsi. Ethnicity is indeed a factor. But of paramount importance in this conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsi, in both countries, is the struggle for power although with "racial" overtones, and the exclusion of the Hutu majority from meaningful participation in the political process. Therefore the conflicts are not tribal wars but political statements as well, probably more than anything else; what Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa aptly described as "military expressions of political intent." In this comprehensive study, the author also addresses one of the most controversial subjects today: conflict resolution in Africa. There are no easy answers, but the author attempts to provide some of them. He covers as much ground as possible, trying to come up with solutions not only to the wars in Africa's Great Lakes region, but in other parts of the continent as well.

When Victims Become Killers

Author : Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691193835
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book When Victims Become Killers written by Mahmood Mamdani and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide "When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population." So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement was the realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including judges, doctors, priests, and friends. Rejecting easy explanations of the Rwandan genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, When Victims Become Killers situates the tragedy in its proper context. Mahmood Mamdani coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutus to turn so brutally on their neighbors. In so doing, Mamdani usefully broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa and provides a direction for preventing similar future tragedies.

Justice in Africa

Author : Paul J. Magnarella
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Justice in Africa written by Paul J. Magnarella and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2. The international role

Journey Into Darkness

Author : Thomas Paul Odom
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603446133
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Journey Into Darkness written by Thomas Paul Odom and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odom offers an insider's account of the events before, during, and after the genocide that has killed over 3 million Rwandans. A defense attache and foreign area specialist in the Army who spent over 18 months in Rwanda, Odom focuses on two U.S. embassies, intelligence operations, U.N. peacekeeping efforts, and regional reactions.

Surviving the Slaughter

Author : Marie Beatrice Umutesi
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299204936
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Surviving the Slaughter written by Marie Beatrice Umutesi and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the world was stunned by the horrific massacres of Tutsi by the Hutu majority in Rwanda beginning in April 1994, there has been little coverage of the reprisals that occurred after the Tutsi gained political power. During this time hundreds of thousands of Hutu were systematically hunted and killed. Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire is the eyewitness account of Marie Béatrice Umutesi. She tells of life in the refugee camps in Zaire and her flight across 2000 kilometers on foot. During this forced march, far from the world’s cameras, many Hutu refugees were trampled and murdered. Others died from hunger, exhaustion, and sickness, or simply vanished, ignored by the international community and betrayed by humanitarian organizations. Amidst this brutality, day-to-day suffering, and desperate survival, Umutesi managed to organize the camps to improve the quality of life for women and children. In this first-hand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Béatrice Umutesi sheds light on a backlash of violence that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994. Umutesi’s documentation of the flight and terror of these years provides the world a veritable account of a history that is still widely unknown. After translations from its original French into three other languages, this important book is available in English for the first time. It is more than a testimony to the lives and humanity lost; it is a call for those politicians, military personnel, and humanitarian organizations responsible for the atrocious crimes—and the devastating silence—to be held accountable.

Critical Perspectives on African Genocide

Author : Alfred Frankowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781538147030
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on African Genocide written by Alfred Frankowski and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores critical perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and environmentalism to deepen our understanding of genocide and genocidal violence.