History of Rwandan Identity and Trauma - The Mythmakers'' Victims

This book examines the complicated events, conditions, and narratives that have shaped Rwanda's identity. Drawing on numerous sources and fieldwork, it discusses this east central African nation's deeply seated cleavages, atrocious recent past, and the internal and external myths that have directed its history and national life.

List of contents

Introduction: Myth, Trauma, and Rwanda
Chapter 1. Pre-Colonial Inequalities and Colonial Assumptions
Chapter 2. Hutu Power and Genocide
Chapter 3. Justice and Unity?
Chapter 4. Creating a Competing Mythology
Chapter 5. Comparisons and Conclusions

About the author

Randall Fegley

Product details

• Authors: Randall Fegley
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498519458
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1945-8
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Africa / East, Rwanda, African History