Defeat Is The Only Bad News

Author : Alison Des Forges
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299281434

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Defeat Is the Only Bad News by Alison Des Forges Pdf

A Rwandan proverb says “Defeat is the only bad news.” For Rwandans living under colonial rule, winning called not only for armed confrontation, but also for a battle of wits—and not only with foreigners, but also with each other. In Defeat Is the Only Bad News Alison Des Forges recounts the ambitions, strategies, and intrigues of an African royal court under Yuhi Musinga, the Rwandan ruler from 1896 to 1931. These were turbulent years for Rwanda, when first Germany and then Belgium pursued an aggressive plan of colonization there. At the time of the Europeans’ arrival, Rwanda was also engaged in a succession dispute after the death of one of its most famous kings. Against this backdrop, the Rwandan court became the stage for a drama of Shakespearean proportions, filled with deceit, shrewd calculation, ruthless betrayal, and sometimes murder. Historians who study European expansion typically focus on interactions between colonizers and colonized; they rarely attend to relations among the different factions inhabiting occupied lands. Des Forges, drawing on oral histories and extensive archival research, reveals how divisions among different groups in Rwanda shaped their responses to colonial governments, missionaries, and traders. Rwandans, she shows, used European resources to extend their power, even as they sought to preserve the autonomy of the royal court. Europeans, for their part, seized on internal divisions to advance their own goals. Des Forges’s vividly narrated history, meticulously edited and introduced by David Newbury, provides a deep context for understanding the Rwandan civil war a century later.

Author : Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1236789

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Defeat is the Only Bad News : Rwanda Under Musiinga, 1896-1931 by Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges Pdf

Author : Jean-Marie Kamatali
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000025149

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Introduction to Rwandan Law by Jean-Marie Kamatali Pdf

This book explores key innovations in Rwandan law, exploring how the homegrown legal system with the civil law and common law legal systems. The author explores the history of Rwandan law through pre-colonial, to colonial and post-independence periods, examines the homegrown legal and justice approaches, such as Gacaca, Abunzi and Imihigo, introduced in post genocide Rwanda to deal with legal problems that could not be dealt with using the western legal system; and highlights the innovative Rwandan approach to incorporating international law in the domestic legal system. The book also covers the evolution of the Rwandan Constitutional Law and Constitutionalism since independence; the development of family law from a legal system that oppressed women to one that promotes girls and women rights. Finally, the book explores the contribution of common law in the transformation of the organization, jurisdiction and functioning of Rwandan Courts. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of African law, international law and the legal system in Rwanda.

Author : Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1051586153

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Defeat is the Only Bad News: Rwanda Under Musiinga, 1896-1931 by Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges Pdf

Author : J. J. Carney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190612375

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Rwanda Before the Genocide by J. J. Carney Pdf

Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda's most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, the church has been critiqued for its perceived complicity in the ethnic discourse and political corruption that culminated with the 1994 genocide. In analyzing the contested legacy of Catholicism in Rwanda, Rwanda Before the Genocide focuses on a critical decade, from 1952 to 1962, when Hutu and Tutsi identities became politicized, essentialized, and associated with political violence. This study--the first English-language church history on Rwanda in over 30 years--examines the reactions of Catholic leaders such as the Swiss White Father André Perraudin and Aloys Bigirumwami, Rwanda's first indigenous bishop. It evaluates Catholic leaders' controversial responses to ethnic violence during the revolutionary changes of 1959-62 and after Rwanda's ethnic massacres in 1963-64, 1973, and the early 1990s. In seeking to provide deeper insight into the many-threaded roots of the Rwandan genocide, Rwanda Before the Genocide offers constructive lessons for Christian ecclesiology and social ethics in Africa and beyond.

Author : Richard Biernacki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520216792

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Beyond the Cultural Turn by Richard Biernacki Pdf

A collection of engaging essays that look specifically at the effect of culturalism on history and sociology and propose new directions in the theory and practice of research.

Author : Klaus Bachmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000892901

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A History of Rwanda by Klaus Bachmann Pdf

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994 genocide and reconstruction, right up to the modern day. Based on extensive archival research, this book provides new insights and corrects many popular stereotypes about Rwanda, aiming to go beyond the polarized and heated debates focused on the genocide and the events that followed. Readers will get a clear and broad picture of Rwanda’s history and the social and political contexts that have defined the county from the pre-colonial period onwards. Embedding Rwanda’s history in the regional context, this book avoids simple moral judgements and instead shows where and when Rwanda differed from its neighbours and how the country’s history fits into larger debates about colonialism, genocide, ethnicity, race and development. Offering a full and balanced exploration of Rwanda’s rich and paradoxical history, this book will be an important read for researchers and students of African history, genocide studies, transitional justice, colonialism, and political and social anthropology.

Author : Mohamed Adhikari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000411775

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Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies by Mohamed Adhikari Pdf

Existing studies of settler colonial genocides explicitly consider the roles of metropolitan and colonial states, and their military forces in the perpetration of exterminatory violence in settler colonial situations, yet rarely pay specific attention to the dynamics around civilian-driven mass violence against indigenous peoples. In many cases, however, civilians were major, if not the main, perpetrators of such violence. The focus of this book is thus on the role of civilians as perpetrators of exterminatory violence and on those elements within settler colonial situations that promoted mass violence on their part.

Author : John Bale
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 081663386X

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Imagined Olympians by John Bale Pdf

Author : Erin Jessee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319451954

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Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda by Erin Jessee Pdf

This book is an oral history-based study of the politics of history in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Using life history and thematic interviews, the author brings the narratives of officials, survivors, returnees, perpetrators, and others whose lives have been intimately affected by genocide into conversation with scholarly studies of the Rwandan genocide, and Rwandan history more generally. In doing so, she explores the following questions: How do Rwandans use history to make sense of their experiences of genocide and related mass atrocities? And to what end? In the aftermath of such violence, how do people’s interpretations of the varied forms of suffering they endured then influence their ability to envision and support a peaceful future for their nation that includes multi-ethnic cooperation?

Author : Timothy J. Stapleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216097440

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A History of Genocide in Africa by Timothy J. Stapleton Pdf

Based on a series of detailed case studies, this book presents the history of genocide in Africa within the specific context of African history, examining conflicts in countries such as Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Rwanda, and Sudan. Why has Africa been the subject of so many accusations related to genocide? Indeed, the number of such allegations related to Africa has increased dramatically over the past 15 years. Popular racist mythology might suggest that Africans belong to "tribes" that are inherently antagonistic towards each other and therefore engage in "tribal warfare" which cannot be rationally explained. This concept is wrong, as Timothy J. Stapleton explains in A History of Genocide in Africa: the many conflicts that have plagued post-colonial Africa have had very logical explanations, and very few of these instances of African warring can be said to have resulted in genocide. Authored by an expert historian of Africa, this book examines the history of six African countries—Namibia, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Nigeria—in which the language of genocide has been mobilized to describe episodes of tragic mass violence. It seeks to place genocide within the context of African history, acknowledging the few instances where the international legal term genocide has been applied appropriately to episodes of mass violence in African history and identifying the many other cases where it has not and instead the term has been used in a cynical manipulation to gain some political advantage. Readers will come to understand how, to a large extent, genocide accusations related to post-colonial Africa have often served to prolong wars and cause greater loss of life. The book also clarifies how in areas of Africa where genocides have actually occurred, there appears to have been a common history of the imposition of racial ideologies and hierarchies during the colonial era—which when combined with other factors such as the local geography, demography, religion, and/or economics, resulted in tragic and appalling outcomes.

Author : Omer Bartov,Phyllis Mack
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1571813020

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In God's Name by Omer Bartov,Phyllis Mack Pdf

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by examining the intersection between religion and state-organized murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series of descrete, yet closely related case studies, that shed light on three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of atrocity.

Author : Ryan Shaffer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538150832

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African Intelligence Services by Ryan Shaffer Pdf

This book argues for making African intelligence services front-and-center in studies about historical and contemporary African security. As the first academic anthology on the subject, it brings together a group of international scholars and intelligence practitioners to understand African intelligence services’ post-colonial and contemporary challenges. The book’s eleven chapters survey a diverse collection of countries and provides readers with histories of understudied African intelligence services. The volume examines the intelligence services’ objectives, operations, leaderships, international partners and legal frameworks. The chapters also highlight different methodologies and sources to further scholarly research about African intelligence.

Author : David Mwambari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190942304

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Navigating Cultural Memory by David Mwambari Pdf

"A friend of mine asked me to accompany him to visit a young woman in her twenties named Kayitesi. At the time, in April 2007, Kayitesi lived in rural Kigali with two siblings. Kayitesi's parents and many of her relatives were killed during the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. The genocide took place in the central and eastern African country of Rwanda when radical Hutu youth militias and Hutu political elites targeted and killed the Tutsi for about three months, between April and July. The Hutus and some foreigners who protected the Tutsi or opposed the genocidal violence were also killed"--

Author : Matthew Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476670720

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The Rwandan Genocide on Film by Matthew Edwards Pdf

The Rwandan genocide was one of the most shameful events of the 20th century. Many Westerners' understanding of it is based upon the Oscar-winning film Hotel Rwanda and the critically acclaimed Shooting Dogs. Yet how accurately do these films depict events in Rwanda in 1994? Drawing on new scholarship, this collection of essays explores a variety of feature films and documentaries about the genocide to understand its expression in both Western and Rwandan cinema. Interviews with filmmakers are featured, including journalist Steve Bradshaw (BBC's Panorama), director Nick Hughes (100 Days), director Lee Isaac Chung (Munyurangabo) and Rwandan filmmakers Eric Kabera and Kivu Ruhorahoza.