When identity becomes a knife: Reflecting on the genocide in Rwanda

Ethnicities

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-55

  Hintjens, Helen M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Colonialism; Crisis; Ethnicity; Propaganda; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750505427     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146879680100100109     Document Type: Article

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