Beschreibung
This book creates new insights into the identity crises
behind the violence surrounding the Congo wars. Using
Kinshasa’s press, this study historicises the identification
of the Rwandophone `other’ as a constantly negotiated,
politically contingent and malleable process. It establishes
how the agency of political actors shaped perceptions of
present conflicts by employing selective memories and
mythico-historical visions of the past. This ideological
mobilisation linked the Rwandophones to fearful narratives
of Rwandan expansionism during the DRC’s recent conflicts
(c. 1990 – 2005).
Lars Huening received his PhD from the
Unversity of Sheffield (UK) in 2012, and is a Research
Fellow at the Centre for Africa Studies, University of the
Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
