false 3343049 2 The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the<br>groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval.<br> Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's population--fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan<br>forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-Desire Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda,<br>Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractible and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the<br>assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. <br> Here then is a gripping eyewitness account of the most bloody upheaval of recent times, a book of passionate and unblinking intensity that is our best record to date of one of the great tragedies of the post-Cold War era. 3381348 8 12 2008 Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe total:13|5:5|4:6|3:1|2:1| 13 54 94 5 4 2 false false Tue Apr 21 12:46:09 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 12:47:37 -0700 2009 Africa's World War a worthwhile if dense expression of one man's opinions about an incredibly complex chapter in the continent's history. Is it rife with supposition, self-serving sources, and...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 13:52:51 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 12:43:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 15 12:15:39 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 12:19:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jan 31 15:24:42 -0800 2009 Sun May 24 04:09:26 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 14:03:41 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 14:08:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 06:12:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 06:12:00 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 05 08:31:21 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 08:31:26 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 01 08:41:03 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 08:41:03 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 22 14:38:28 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 14:38:28 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 18 11:33:23 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 11:33:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 17:25:38 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 17:25:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 12 18:58:17 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 18:58:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:37:35 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 00:37:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 09 10:57:06 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 21:36:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 17 19:37:33 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 19:37:33 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Aug 10 12:27:57 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 12:27:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 20 10:03:38 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 10:03:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 20 05:27:25 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 05:27:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 16:04:34 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 16:04:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 16 06:06:07 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 06:06:07 -0700 2009