Author: Gerard Prunier

The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some 4 million people. In this extraordinary history of wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval.
Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some 2 million refugees fled to exile in Zaire in 1996.
The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire’s despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of allied African countries, overthrew him.
The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in a bloody conflict after 1998, according to a review on goodreads.com.