Antecedents to Modern Rwanda The Nyiginya Kingdom

Name: Antecedents to Modern Rwanda The Nyiginya Kingdom
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ISBN: 9780299201241

ISBN-10: 0299201244

ISBN-13: 9780299201241

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jan Vansina, Thomas Spear, David Henige, Michael Schatzberg

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To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda’s recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians and provides a bottom-up view, drawing on hundreds of grassroots narratives. He describes the genesis of the Hutu and Tutsi identities, their growing social and political differences, their bitter feuds, revolts, and massacres, and the relevance of this dramatic history to the post-genocide Rwanda of today. 2001 French edition, Katharla Publishers This edition is copublished with James Curry Publishers Ltd., Oxford, England. The Wisconsinnbsp;paperback is not for…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 11/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Central Rwanda on the eve of the emergence of the kingdom



The Rwanda of Ndori



Toward the centralization of power



Government in the eighteenth century



Social transformations in the nineteenth century



The triumph of the great families and its consequences



Nightmares : the age of Rwabugiri (1867-1897)


In conclusion : history and the present



Predynastic fairy tales : Central Rwanda before Ndori