Gérard Prunier
Gérard Prunier is a French academic and historian specializing in the Horn of Africa and the more southerly African Great Lakes region.Biography
Prunier received a PhD in African History in 1981 from the University of Paris. In 1984, he joined the CNRS scientific institution in Paris as a researcher. He later also became Director of the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa.
Prunier has published over 120 articles and five books. He is fluent in his native French, as well as English and Spanish. He also has good knowledge of Italian and German, and a basic knowledge of Juba Arabic and Swahili.Published works
;Books
- Les Ethnies ont une histoire, Paris : Karthala, 1989,
- L'Ouganda et la question indienne : 1896-1972, Paris : Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, 1990
- The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide, Columbia University Press, 1995,
- Le Kenya contemporain,, Paris : Karthala & Nairobi : IFRA, 1998,
- Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Cornell University Press, 2005,
- L'Éthiopie contemporaine, CFEE-Karthala, Addis Abeba and Paris, 2007,
- , C. Hurst & Co., 2009,
- :Published in the US as Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of Continental Catastrophe, Oxford University Press, 2009,
;Articles
- "", WRITENET, October 1994
- "", Le Monde diplomatique, February 1997
- "Rwanda: the Social, Political and Economic Situation", WRITENET, June 1997
- "", Le Monde diplomatique, October 1997
- "", Le Monde diplomatique, February 1998
- "", Le Monde diplomatique, April 2000
- ", Le Monde diplomatique, December 2002
- "Did Somebody Say Genocide?: Gérard Prunier on Darfur", Harper's Magazine, August 2006
- "", opendemocracy.net, 15 September 2006
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