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Name:	Africa's World War: Congo, The Rwandan Genocide, and the making of a Continental Catastrophe
Product Code:	9780195374209
Description:	By Gerard Prunier
Product Detail:	Africanist Prunier provides an exhaustive history of the 1996–2002 war in the Democratic Republic of Congo through many bewildering twists and turns. Sparked by a Rwandan army incursion to clear out Hutu-dominated refugee camps on the border between the two countries, the conflict dragged in the armies of eight surrounding countries and an alphabet soup of Congolese guerrilla movements and tribal militias; millions died in the fighting and attendant massacres, starvation and disease. Prunier discerns many layers to the upheaval; a conventional struggle for political control, it was also a multisided act of piracy aimed at looting the country's mineral wealth, an outbreak of generations-long ethnic hatreds and a ghastly symptom of Africa's ongoing crisis of weak and illegitimate governments. The author carefully untangles these complexities while offering unsparing assessments of the participants. Prunier's account is lucid, meticulously researched and incisive.
Features:	Hardback Index, notes, bibliography, 529 pages
Price:	$27.95

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