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Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom
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
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publish Date: Nov 4th, 2004
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.88in - 6.04in - 0.82in - 1.10lb
- EAN: 9780299201241
- Categories: • Africa - General• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - General
About the Author
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. His many books include his 1994 memoir Living with Africa, Oral Tradition as History, Kingdoms of the Savanna, and The Children of Woot, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Praise for this book
"For historians . . . the choice is clear. Only at their peril will they ignore Vansina's seminal contribution to our understanding of one of the most complex and controversial chapters in the history of the continent. There are few books about Africa today I would qualify as a magnificent achievement. This is one of them."-- Rene Lemarchand, African Affairs
"[Vansina] is both the leading historian of pre-colonial Africa, and a writer of unparalleled authority on the use of oral tradition. . . . This book is the culmination of nearly fifty years of interest and research in Rwanda."--Shane Doyle, Leeds African Studies Bulletin
"An original interpretation of Rwandese history from the beginning of the kingdom to the advent of the colonial era."--John M. Janzen, The American Historical Review