The Debris of Ham: Ethnicity, Regionalism, and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

by Aimable Twagilimana

Overview

In the attempt to explain the mass killings of the Tutsi of Rwanda in April-July 1994, books written about the 1994 Rwandan genocide have focused on ethnicity at the expense of other factors, including the acrimonious history of regional politics in Rwanda since the turn of the twentieth century. In The Debris of Ham, Aimable Twagilimana argues that while ethnic ideology provided the materials for the relentless propaganda against the Tutsi and the Hutu of the political opposition in 1990-1994, in a parallel mode, regional politics provided the sine qua non that made the 1994 Rwandan genocide possible. This book investigates the juxtaposition of ethnicity and regionalism in Rwandan politics, and the unfolding of the worst mass murder at the end of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761825852
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	06/11/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.54(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Aimable Twagilimana is Associate Professor of English, SUNY College at Buffalo.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 List of Abbreviations Chapter 2 Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction: From Auschwitz to Rwanda Chapter 4 Framing Rwanda: Ethnic and Nationalist Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era Chapter 5 The Hamatic Hypothesis and Rwandan Historiography Chapter 6 The Debris of Ham: From the 1959 Hutu Revolution to the Institutions of Ethnic and Regional Otherness Chapter 7 The Path to Genocide: Human Rights Violations as Genocide Rehearsals Chapter 8 From Region to Nation: Ordinary Rwandans and the 1994 Genocide Chapter 9 Remembering the Rwandan Genocide Chapter 10 Appendix: Some Important Dates in Rwandan History Chapter 11 Notes Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 Index

Editorial Reviews

a useful contribution to the growing literature on the Rwandan genocide.

Foreign Affairs

?a useful contribution to the growing literature on the Rwandan genocide.--Foreign Affairs

Twagilimana brings the local sensitivity and specialized knowledge of a native Rwandan to this account of the 1994 genocide...a useful contribution to the growing literature on the Rwandan genocide.--Foreign Affairs

...a useful contribution to the growing literature on the Rwandan genocide.--Foreign Affairs

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