Title: Grand narratives of the Great Lakes Region of Africa and their contribution to the current conflicts
First published: 2003
Description: Grand narratives of the great Lakes region of Africa searches into the conflicts that have been experienced in the region since independence. The author explains how people can be trapped in their history and how memory of that history can lead people to be divided to the extent of killing each other. Ngabirano exposes all these dangers in the conflicts experienced in The Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. For anyone familiar to the conflicts in that region, the book gives a good piece of understanding the origins and what could be done if people divided a long the lines of differing narratives and memories could be helped to live together, that is by recognizing and accepting difference and by using difference not as a marker of competition for resources or power, but a diversity that can be enjoyed.
Subjects: Folklore and nationalism, Ethnic conflict