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The ancient kingdom of Rwanda had a rich tradition of ritual objects that were integral to both the royal court and spiritual practice. These sacred items carried deep symbolic and ceremonial ...

To understand the background of events which shook Rwanda in 1994. To understand what genocide is. To understand the process and reasons which triggered the flow of refugees from Rwanda into ...

In Rwanda, students may soon learn their national history for the first time since the 1994 genocide. Following the bloody ethnic conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu, the government imposed a ...

Desrosiers has written an excellent political history of authoritarianism in Rwanda before the 1994 genocide. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the country’s political history and, more ...