Research Catalog

Title

Rwanda and the new scramble for Africa : from tragedy to useful imperial fiction / Robin Philpot.

Author

Philpot, Robin

Publication

Montréal : Baraka Books, 2013.

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Details

Description

273 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that "the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsibility." Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly one million Tutsis after the Rwandan presidential plane crashed in the heart of dark Africa on April 6, 1994. Where do these two contradictory narratives come from? Which is true? Robin Philpot's vast and methodical research, extensive interviews, and close analysis of events, testimony in courts, and popular writings on the subject show not only that that official narrative is false, but that it was edified to cover up the causes of the tragedy and to protect the criminals responsible for it. What's more, to make that story more believable, the storytellers have unfailingly reproduced the literary traditions, clichés, and metaphors that provided the underpinnings of slavery, the slave-trade, and colonialism. Nearly 20 years later, the facts about the Rwandan tragedy have been so distorted and the adjudicated facts ignored that Rwanda is now used everywhere to justify so-called humanitarian intervention throughout Africa (and the world). It has become a "useful imperial fiction," and for that reason, this book seeks to find out what really happened there.

Uniform Title

Ça ne s'est pas passé comme ça à Kigali. English

Alternative Title

Ça ne s'est pas passé comme ça à Kigali.

Subjects

• Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994
• Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century

Note

• Translation of: Ça ne s'est pas passé comme ça à Kigali.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Invasion? What invasion? -- In the name of peace and democracy -- The power of a word -- Scouts at her Majesty's service -- A coup by any other name -- It shall be called a plane crash -- How is the empire? -- The heart of dark imaginations -- Power to those who have it! - Philip Gourevitch -- The importance of being Canadian - Carol Off -- Sunday at the cesspool - Gil Courtemanche -- An avatar of colonial Europe -- Colette Braeckman -- International criminal justice as "battering ram" -- From his Rwandan home, banished a wand'rer came -- "Watch out for Africa!" closing in on the Congo -- Interview with Captain Amadou Deme - "shock and awe" in Kigali, April 1994 -- Human rights watch and Alison Des Forges VS Rwandan delegation in New York, May 1994.

Call Number

Sc D 14-1108

ISBN

• 9781926824949 (pbk.)
• 1926824946 (pbk.)
• 9781771860055 (e-pub.)
• 1771860057 (e-pub.)
• 9781771860062 (pdf.)
• 1771860065 (pdf.)
• 9781771860079 (mobi)
• 1771860073 (mobi)

LCCN

2013487613

OCLC

856975153

Author

Philpot, Robin, author.

Title

Rwanda and the new scramble for Africa : from tragedy to useful imperial fiction / Robin Philpot.

Publisher

Montréal : Baraka Books, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Other Form:

Philpot, Robin. Ça ne s'est pas passé comme ça à Kigali. English Rwanda and the new scramble for Africa. (CaOONL)20139074368

Research Call Number

Sc D 14-1108