The Struggle for Liberation - A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994

The Rwandan Genocide of 1994, in which eight hundred thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu were killed, was the final phase of a four-year civil war known as the Struggle for Liberation. This book is the first scholarly study to detail the comprehensive historical and political contexts that led to the conflict and eventual genocide.

About the author

John Burton Kegel specializes in African military and economic history from roughly 1850 to the present. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy and a research fellow at the African Studies Centre Leiden, where his work is sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

Product details

• Authors: John Burton Kegel
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9780821426265
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2626-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: War and Militarism in African History
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous