Transforming Rwanda : challenges on the road to reconstruction /

Kimonyo, Jean Paul,

Transforming Rwanda : challenges on the road to reconstruction / Jean-Paul Kimonyo ; translated from French by Charles Akin. - Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xi, 271 pages)

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Transforming Rwanda -- Part 1. The antecedents -- The roots of change -- The end of the revolutionary regime -- The refugees return -- Part 2. In the wake of catastrophe -- July 1994 -- Between war and peace -- Change -- Part 4. Rise of a new state -- Building a new republic -- The road to socioeconomic transformation -- Public support -- Part 4. Conclusion -- Explaining the trajectory.

Since the end of its genocidal civil war in 1994, Rwanda has embarked on an ambitious, and often controversial, process of reconstruction. Jean-Paul Kimonyo comprehensively analyzes that process in the political, military, socioeconomic, and cultural arenas. Kimonyo combines the objectivity of a scholar with the front-row perspective of a participant to provide an unparalleled analysis of the ups and downs of Rwanda's transformation. Drawing extensively on primary sources and grounding his study in historical context, he traces and analyzes the states of reconstruction as they have continued t.



9781626377998

2018049188


Electronic Books.

DT450 / .T736 2019