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PublisherPrinceton University Press

ISBN-100691192340

ISBN-139780691192345

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038427840

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Number of Pages392 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWhen Victims Become Killers : Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda

SubjectGenocide & War Crimes, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Africa / Central, Africa / East

Publication Year2020

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History

AuthorMahmood. Mamdani

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight20.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Reviews"Few are better qualified to explain the tensions of post-colonial Africa than Mahmood Mamdani. . . . His Rwandan case-study provides powerful evidence that the Tutsis came to be crushed between colonist and native." --Richard Synge, Independent, 'eoeFew are better qualified to explain the tensions of post-colonial Africa than Mahmood Mamdani. . . . His Rwandan case-study provides powerful evidence that the Tutsis came to be crushed between colonist and native.'e'e"Richard Synge, Independent, "[Mamdani's] analysis of Rwandese society, in particular the role of the church in the genocide, is fascinating." --Victoria Brittain, Guardian, "The strengths of the book are clear and admirable. . . . Anyone from now on who writes on identity in Central Africa--and there will be many--will have to wrestle with the case that Mamdani has made." --Jeffrey Herbst, Foreign Affairs, 'eoeThe strengths of the book are clear and admirable. . . . Anyone from now on who writes on identity in Central Africa'e"and there will be many'e"will have to wrestle with the case that Mamdani has made.'e'e"Jeffrey Herbst, Foreign Affairs, 'eoe[Mamdani'e(tm)s] analysis of Rwandese society, in particular the role of the church in the genocide, is fascinating.'e'e"Victoria Brittain, Guardian

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal967.57104

SynopsisAn incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide "When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population." So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement was the realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including judges, doctors, priests, and friends. Rejecting easy explanations of the Rwandan genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, When Victims Become Killers situates the tragedy in its proper context. Mahmood Mamdani coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutus to turn so brutally on their neighbors. In so doing, Mamdani usefully broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa and provides a direction for preventing similar future tragedies.

LC Classification NumberHV