The Great Lakes of Africa
Two Thousand Years of History
By Jean-Pierre Chretien; Scott Straus (Translator)
(Zone Books (NY), Hardcover, 9781890951344, 503pp.)
Publication Date: June 2003
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (October 2006)
Categories: Africa - Central, Africa - East
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Description
Drawing on colonial archives, oral tradition, archeological discoveries, anthropologic and linguistic studies, and his thirty years of scholarship, Jean-Pierre Chretien offers a major synthesis of the history of the region, one still plagued by extremely violent wars.











