Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivus Borderlands - Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa

"This innovative study explores how long-term historical processes in the Lake Kivu region have shaped present-day relations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gillian Mathys reexamines historical understandings of mobility, conflict, identity formation and historical narration across state and ecological borders"--

List of contents

I. Practices of Space: 1. Frontiers: centering Lake Kivu's societies (19th Century); II. Making the Borderlands: 2. Demarcations: drawing colonial borders (1890s-1910); 3. Separations: chiefs and chieftaincies (1910-1930s); III. Connections: 4. Contradictions: labor questions (1920s and 1930s); 5. Continuities: histories of mobility (ca. 1937-1948); 6. Asymmetries: friendship and commercial flows (1930s-1950s); IV. (Dis)connected Pasts: 7. Precursors: land, power and identity (1950s); 8. Borders: conflicted decolonizations (1959-1965); 9. Entanglements: 'Greater Rwanda' and 'balkanisation' (1990s-2022).

About the author

Gillian Mathys is an Associate Professor in African History at Ghent University, with particular research interests in the Great Lakes Region. She has previously been appointed as an expert to the parliamentary commission on Belgium's colonial past. Mathys has contributed articles to journals including The Journal of African History, Africa, and The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Mathys, Gillian (Universiteit Gent Mathys
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009463058
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0946305-8
• No. of pages: 396
• Series: African Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 21st Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Central Africa, African History, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government, Africa: rivers, lakes etc