Re-Imagining Rwanda

The tragic conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994–1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world''s media. Journalists, diplomats and aid workers struggled to find a way to make sense of the bloodshed. Johan Pottier''s troubling study shows that the post-genocide regime in Rwanda was able to impose a simple yet persuasive account of Central Africa''s crises upon international commenta...