Product Description: An examination of the responses of African kingships to the challenge of modernity and political centralisation. Among the eight study cases are Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi and Swaziland.

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Product Description: This book situates Burundi in the current global debate on ethnicity by describing and analyzing the wholesale massacre of the Hutu majority by the Tutsi minority. The author refutes the government's version of these events that places blame on the former colonial government and the church...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work examines the factors that contributed to Congolese political fragmentation encompassing the colonial administrative framework, the impact of western political and economic forces, and the transformations brought about by Christianity and western education.

Product Description: ...offers Bender's outstanding analysis of the U.S. Angolian intervention... two stimulating essays on the regional role of the CIA (by Stephen Weissman and Lemarchand himself), and two divergent views of the best U.S. policy toward South Africa by William J...read more