The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of HistoryZone Books, 2003 M03 6 - 503 pages Although the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language historical accounts of the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa are still scarce. Drawing on a wide range of sources — colonial archives, oral tradition, archaeological discoveries, studies in anthropology and linguistics, and his thirty years of scholarship — Jean-Pierre Chrétien offers a major synthesis of the history of the region, which encompasses Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Eastern Congo, and Western Tanzania, a region still plagued by extremely violent wars. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Linguistic Note | 19 |
An Ancient Human Settlement | 41 |
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