| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4 | The History Cooperative

Jan Vansina. Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom. (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 354. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.
This important work by one of the foremost historians of Central Africa is Jan Vansina's own translation of Le Rwanda Ancien: Le royaume nyiginya (2001), an original interpretation of Rwandese history from the beginning of the kingdom to the advent of the colonial era. It seeks to dislodge "false propositions" about Rwandese history from popular and scholarly consciousness.	1
The book's chapters follow a chronological progression from the "Central Rwanda on the Eve of the Emergence of the Kingdom," to "The Rwanda of Ndori," "Toward the Centralization of Power," "Government in the Eighteenth Century," "Social Transformations in the Nineteenth Century," "The Triumph of the Great Families and Its Consequences," "Nightmares: The Age of Rwabugiri (1867–1897)," and a conclusion on "History and the Present."	. . .

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