Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region of Africa

✍ Scribed by Stefaan Marysse, Filip Reyntjens

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the international factors such as enforced democracy and globalization that have affected the Great Lakes region of Africa. The horrendous consequences in terms of violence and human suffering of the events in this area have been exhibited in the media, however news coverage after 1994 was at times unreliable. This book takes a look at life since then, adopting an independent, and on occasion controversial perspective.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Maps......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Notes on the Contributors......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Part I In the Eye of the Storm......Page 30
1 Rwanda, Ten Years on: From Genocide to Dictatorship......Page 32
2 Disconnecting the Threads: Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered......Page 65
3 The Evolution and Characteristics of Poverty and Inequality in Rwanda......Page 88
4 Consociational Democracy for Rwanda?......Page 118
Part II From Collapse and War to Reconstruction?......Page 140
5 Regress, War and Fragile Recovery: The Case of the DRCongo......Page 142
6 The Mining Sector in Congo: The Victim or the Orphan of Globalization?......Page 169
7 Kivu and Ituri in the Congo War: The Roots and Nature of a Linkage......Page 207
8 War and the Political Economy of Kinshasa......Page 240