Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom
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Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom

Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom

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Jan Vansina (Author)  

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Professor Vansina is the foremost authority on the history of Rwanda. The author of the classic Oral Tradition as History bases his account on hundreds of grass-roots narratives. It shows the historical roots of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 through an investigation of Rwanda's Nyiginya Dynasty of the 18th and 19th centuries. It demystifies Rwanda's precolonial past and colonial historiography. It describes the genesis of the Hutu and Tutsi identities, their growing social and political differences, their bitter feuds,revolts and massacres. North America: University of Wisconsin Press 11 line illus.
Jan Vansina is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor and the Vilas Professor in History and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Contributor: Jan Vansina
  • Imprint: James Currey
  • ISBN13: 9780852559970
  • Number of Pages: 320
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 1
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: James Currey
  • Release Date: 2005-02-18
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Jan Vansina is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor and the Vilas Professor in History and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

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