Burundi : biography of a small African country /
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Watt, Nigel
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BookPublisher: London : Hurst & Company, c2008Description: xiii, 234 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780231700900; 0231700903; 9781850659150; 185065915X; 9781850659174; 1850659176.Subject(s): Burundi -- History | Burundi -- Social conditions | Burundi -- Politics and government | Burundi -- Biography | Burundi -- Ethnic relations | Biography | History| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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KAMPALA UNIVERSITY, JINJA General Section | DT450.68.W385 2008 (Browse shelf) | C1 | Available | Material Available in hard copy | 2018-1058 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and index
1. A quick tour of the country -- 2. Transport, language, culture, religion -- 3. Kings, Germans, Belgians, Hutus, Tutsis, Twa -- 4. Micombero and the tragedy of 1972 -- 5. Dictatorship and the first seeds of democracy 1977-93 -- 6. The crisis begins (1993) : the killing of Ndadaye and the aftermath -- 7. "Creeping coup" to Buyoya II, 1993-99 -- 8. The peace talks at Arusha, 1998-2001 -- 9. Buyoya, Ndayizeye and the elections of 2005 -- 10. Rebels and extremists -- 11. Integrating the army : disarmament and demobilisation -- 12. Tales of "ethnicity" -- 13. The Twa : organising the most marginalised -- 14. Peace comes to Kibimba -- 15. Action by Christians : peace education and trauma healing -- 16. Peacemaking on the ground -- 17. The media -- 18. Governance, human rights and justice -- 19. Poverty and development : the economy as the key to peace? -- 20. International organisations -- 21. The new regime, 2005-07 -- 22. Is it peace?
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