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Gérard Prunier
French academic

Gérard Prunier

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French academic
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Age
82 years
Education
Sciences Po
Doctorate in France
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
(-1981)
Paris Nanterre University
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Biography

Gérard Prunier is a French academic and historian specializing in the Horn of Africa and the more southerly African Great Lakes region.

Biography

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. He is fluent in his native French, as well as English and Spanish. He also has good knowledge of Italian and German, and a basic knowledge of Juba Arabic (Sudanese colloquial Arabic) and Swahili.

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Books
  • (in French) Les Ethnies ont une histoire (ed. with Jean-Pierre Chrétien [fr]), Paris : Karthala, 1989, ISBN 2-86537-226-X
  • (in 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 0-231-10408-1
  • (in French) Le Kenya contemporain, (ed. with François Grignon), Paris : Karthala & Nairobi : IFRA, 1998, ISBN 2-86537-793-8
  • Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Cornell University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8014-4450-0
  • L'Éthiopie contemporaine (director), CFEE-Karthala, Addis Abeba and Paris, 2007, ISBN 978-2-84586-736-9
  • From Genocide to Continental War: The "Congolese" Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa, C. Hurst & Co., 2009, ISBN 1-85065-523-5
    Published in the US as Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of Continental Catastrophe, Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-537420-9
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