Dixon Kamukama, Rwanda Conflict: Its Roots and Regional Implications. Kampala: Fountain Publications, 1993.
Slim paperback, 80 pages, illustrations. A little creasing, some browning in the text. Good condition.
Scarce Ugandan publication.
'The struggle for independence in most African countries was characterized by uprisings of the local population against their colonial masters. In Rwanda, however, the wrath of the agitators was directed towards another section of the same population, forcing thousands of people to flee their country and live in other countries as refugees.
'It was this grim contradiction that has come to haunt the different regimes in Kigali and which led to the 1990 invasion of the country by Rwandese refugees.
'The author traces the roots of the conflict which forced thousands of Rwandese to leave their country and their life as refugees, up to the time of the invasion and subsequent signing of the peace pact between the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) and the Kigali Government.
'Dixon Kamukama was born in 1956 and had his education at Mbarara High School, and Mbale Secondary School. He later joined Makerere University where did a BA degree, majoring in Philosophy and History. He took up a job as a teaching assistant in the department of History, Makerere University in 1983. In 1986 he obtained a Canadian Commonwealth award to pursue graduate studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada, where the obtained a Masters degree in History. On return to Uganda, he took up an appointment at Makerere University as a Lecturer in History, where he has for sometime taught a course, History of Imperialism and Colonialism.
'He has also served in part-time capacity as a lecturer in the Department of Mass-communication, Makerere University. He also lectures at the Islamic University in Uganda.'
