The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

by René Lemarchand

Book Overview

Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation--most infamously under Belgium's Leopold II--were followed by decades of civil warfare that spilled into neighboring countries. When these conflicts lead to horrors such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220900
• ISBN13: 9780812220902
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"