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"Finally, the author shows how the Independent states of the post-colonial era, in particular Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda, have been trapped by their colonial and pre-colonial legacies, and especially by the racial rewriting of the latter by the former. Today, argues Chretien, the Great Lakes of Africa is a crucial region for historical research: not only because its history is particularly fascinating but also because the tragedies of its present are very much a function of the political manipulations of its past."
"The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History first retraces the human settlement and the formation of kingdoms around the sources of the Nile, which were "discovered" by European explorers around 1860. Chretien then describes these kingdoms' complex social and political organization and analyzes how the colonizers - German, British, and Belgian - not only transformed and exploited the existing power structures, but also projected their own racial categories onto them.".
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