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Susan Thomson, "Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace" (Yale UP, 2018)
How do you put Humpty-Dumpty back together again? Susan Thomson's new book Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace (Yale University Press, 2018) examines the postwar history of Rwanda to consider the ways the Rwandan genocide shaped governance, policy and memory in that country. She begins by recounting what we now know about the genocide, revisiting older interpretations, revising some common assumptions and rethinking earlier arguments. But most of her book is about the way the RPF understood the genocide and its causes and how that understanding shaped the choices Paul Kagame and his…
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