Jean-pierre Chrétien ; Translated By Scott Straus. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 423-472) And Indexes.

Chrétien, Jean-Pierre

Chrétien, Jean Pierre

United States, United States of America

New York, United States, 2003

First edition., 2003

June 8, 2003

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-472) and index.

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Though 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, archeological discoveries, studies in anthropology and linguistics, and his thirty years of scholarship - Jean-Pierre Chretien 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. This new translation brings the work of a leading French historian on the region to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History first retraces the human settlement and the formation of kingdoms around the sources of the Nile, which were "discovered" by European explorers around 1860. Chretien then describes these kingdoms' complex social and political organization and analyzes how the colonizers - German, British, and Belgian - not only transformed and exploited the existing power structures, but also projected their own racial categories onto them. Finally, the author shows how the independent states of the post-colonial era, in particular Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda, have been trapped by their colonial and pre-colonial legacies, and especially by the racial rewriting of the latter by the former. Today, argues Chretien, the Great Lakes of Africa is a crucial region for historical research: not only because its history is particularly fascinating but also because the tragedies of its present are very much a function of the political manipulations of its past.

Traza la historia de la región de los Grandes Lagos de África del Este, proporcionando información sobre el primer establecimiento humano de la región, la formación de reinos alrededor de las fuentes de los Nueve, y el impacto que tuvieron los colonizadores en la región

2023-06-28