From genocide to continental war
Subtitle: the 'Congolese' conflict and the crisis of contemporary Africa
By: Gerard Prunier.
Contributors: Prunier, Gérard.
Publisher: Hurst
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9781850655237; 9781850659587
Subjects: Genocide -- Rwanda; Political violence -- Great Lakes Region (Africa); Geopolitics -- Africa, Central; Armed conflict; War; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1997-; Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Refugees; Africa, Central -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects -- 20th century
Notes: Also published as: Africa's world war : Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe / Gérard Prunier. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-514) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rwanda's mixed season of hope (Jul 1994 - Apr 1995); title: From Kibeho to the attack on Zaire (Apr 1995 - Oct 1996); title: The Congo basin, its interlopers, and its onlookers (Zaire, Sudanese & Ugandans, Angolan conflict); title: Winning a virtual war (Sep 1996 - May 1997); title: Losing the real peace (Kabila, Luanda/Brazzaville, the DRC, Kivus, May 1997 - Aug 1998); title: A continental war (Augu 1998 - Aug 1999, Kinshasa, Lusaka); title: Sinking into the quagmire (Aug 1999 - Jan 2001, Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, MONUC, Mzee); title: Not with a bang, but with a whimper: the war's confused ending (Jan 2001 - Dec 2002); title: From war to peace: Congolese transition and conflict deconstruction (Jan 2003-Jul 2007); title: Groping for meaning: the "Congolese" conflict and the crisis of contemporary Africa; title: Seth Sendashonga's murder.