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.

Prunier is fluent in his native French, as well as English, German and Spanish. He also has general knowledge of Sudanese Arabic.

[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