About the Author

Jean-Pierre Chretien is Directeur de Recherches at the Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifique and affiliated with the Centre de Recherches Africaines at the University of Paris.

Reviews

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*