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An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide ""When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population."" So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement

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A genuinely original contribution to understanding the Rwandan catastrophe. -Dissent Few are better qualified to explain the tensions of post-colonial Africa than Mahmood Mamdani. . . . His Rwandan case-study provides powerful evidence that the Tutsis came to be crushed between colonist and native. -Richard Synge, Independent [Mamdani's] analysis of Rwandese society, in particular the role of the church in the genocide, is fascinating. -Victoria Brittain, Guardian The strengths of the book are clear and admirable. . . . Anyone from now on who writes on identity in Central Africa-and there will be many-will have to wrestle with the case that Mamdani has made. -Jeffrey Herbst, Foreign Affairs

A genuinely original contribution to understanding the Rwandan catastrophe. --Dissent Few are better qualified to explain the tensions of post-colonial Africa than Mahmood Mamdani. . . . His Rwandan case-study provides powerful evidence that the Tutsis came to be crushed between colonist and native. --Richard Synge, Independent [Mamdani's] analysis of Rwandese society, in particular the role of the church in the genocide, is fascinating. --Victoria Brittain, Guardian The strengths of the book are clear and admirable. . . . Anyone from now on who writes on identity in Central Africa--and there will be many--will have to wrestle with the case that Mamdani has made. --Jeffrey Herbst, Foreign Affairs

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Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University and executive director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research. His many books include Citizen and Subject (Princeton) and Saviors and Survivors (Crown).

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