Gérard Prunier

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Gérard Prunier is a French academic and historian specializing in the Horn of Africa and East Africa.

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.

[edit] Published Works

Books

(French)Les Ethnies ont une histoire (ed. with Jean-Pierre Chrétien), Paris : Karthala, 1989, ISBN 286537226X
(French)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, ISBN 0231104081
(French)Le Kenya contemporain, (ed. with François Grignon), Paris : Karthala & Nairobi : IFRA, 1998, ISBN 2865377938
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Cornell University Press, 2005, ISBN 0801444500
From Genocide to Continental War: The "Congolese" Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa, C. Hurst & Co, 2006, ISBN 1850655235

Articles

"Burundi: A Manageable Crisis?", WRITENET (UK), October 1994
"Sudan’s regional war", Le Monde diplomatique, February 1997 (English)/(French)
"Rwanda: the Social, Political and Economic Situation", WRITENET (UK), June 1997
"Somaliland, a forgotten country", Le Monde diplomatique, October 1997 (English)/(French)
"Uganda, nearly a miracle", Le Monde diplomatique, February 1998 (English)/(French)
"Somalia re-invents itself", Le Monde diplomatique, April 2000 (English)/(French)
"Sudan: irreconcilable differences, Le Monde diplomatique, December 2002 (English)/(French)
"Did Somebody Say Genocide?: Gérard Prunier on Darfur", Harper's Magazine, August 2006
"Darfur's Sudan problem", opendemocracy.net, 15 September 2006