Post-genocide identity politics in Rwanda

Ethnicities

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-41

  Hintjens, Helen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diasporic; Genocide; History; Identity; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049095901     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796807087017     Document Type: Article

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