Jean-Pierre Chrétien is Directeur de Recherches at the Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifique and affiliated with the Centre de Recherches Africaines at the University of Paris. Scott Straus is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of several books on Africa and violence, including The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda, and is the translator of Jean-Pierre Chretien's The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History. Formerly a Nairobi-based journalist, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his 1996 reporting on the war in Congo.
Chretien brings three decades of scholarship and corresponding
expertise to this comprehensive history...
*Publishers Weekly*
...anyone with an ancient interest in African affairs will benefit
from this analysis.
*Kirkus Reviews*
A feast of information and analysis.
*Foreign Affairs*
Africa enthusiasts will appreciate the maps of the Great
Lakes...
*Boston Globe*
Chretien has undertaken the formidable task of tracing the roots of
the region's violence...
*The New York Times*
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