Articles · Vol. 1 No. 2 (2005): Africa Review of Books, Volume 1, n° 2, 2005

6- The Great Lakes Region since the Genocide of 1994 in Rwanda

  • Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
    Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
    is Director of the Oslo Governance Centre of the United Nations Development Programme in Oslo, Norway, and professor emeritus of African Studies at Howard University in Washington, DC. Among his recent publications are: State and Democracy in Africa (1998, co-edited) and The...
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Abstract

Alot has already been written on the genocide in Rwanda, its root causes in the construction and mobilization of ethnic identity under colonial rule, and the international context in which the awful events of 1994 took place. While reference will be made to this historical background for purposes of elucidating what has happened during the last ten years, the main purpose of this article is to review the repercussions of the genocide in the Great Lakes region in general, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in particular.

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Genocide of 1994 Rwanda Great Lakes Region

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  • Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

    is Director of the Oslo Governance Centre of the United Nations Development Programme in Oslo, Norway, and professor emeritus of African Studies at Howard University in Washington, DC. Among his recent publications are: State and Democracy in Africa (1998, co-edited) and The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History (2002).

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