John Burton Kegel specializes in African military and economic history from roughly 1850 to the present. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy and a research fellow at the African Studies Centre Leiden, where his work is sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

Many people write about the Rwandan genocide as if it were essentially a moral issue. And it certainly was. But it was rooted in a war reality few people know about. If you want to understand what that reality was, read this book.(Gérard Prunier, author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide) The 1990–94 Rwandan Civil War was no ordinary civil conflict, but rather the critically important precursor to genocide and to a campaign to bring about a "second independence" for Central Africa and beyond. With his detailed and finely researched book, John Burton Kegel makes a very important contribution to our understanding of the war and its protagonists.(Harry Verhoeven, coauthor of Why Comrades go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict)

John Burton Kegel specializes in African military and economic history from roughly 1850 to the present. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy and a research fellow at the African Studies Centre Leiden, where his work is sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

Many people write about the Rwandan genocide as if it were essentially a moral issue. And it certainly was. But it was rooted in a war reality few people know about. If you want to understand what that reality was, read this book.(Gérard Prunier, author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide) The 1990–94 Rwandan Civil War was no ordinary civil conflict, but rather the critically important precursor to genocide and to a campaign to bring about a "second independence" for Central Africa and beyond. With his detailed and finely researched book, John Burton Kegel makes a very important contribution to our understanding of the war and its protagonists.(Harry Verhoeven, coauthor of Why Comrades go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict)

John Burton Kegel specializes in African military and economic history from roughly 1850 to the present. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy and a research fellow at the African Studies Centre Leiden, where his work is sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

Many people write about the Rwandan genocide as if it were essentially a moral issue. And it certainly was. But it was rooted in a war reality few people know about. If you want to understand what that reality was, read this book.(Gérard Prunier, author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide) The 1990–94 Rwandan Civil War was no ordinary civil conflict, but rather the critically important precursor to genocide and to a campaign to bring about a "second independence" for Central Africa and beyond. With his detailed and finely researched book, John Burton Kegel makes a very important contribution to our understanding of the war and its protagonists.(Harry Verhoeven, coauthor of Why Comrades go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict)