Rwanda: Molders Of Mud: Ethnogenesis And Rwanda's Twa

Rwanda: Molders Of Mud: Ethnogenesis And Rwanda's Twa Christopher C. Taylor, 2011   When discussing the politics of ethnicity in Rwanda, most authors discount the role of Twa. Because the latter are Rwanda's least numerous ethnic group, the tendency is to dismiss their importance. This dismissal may seem justified in instrumental terms, but it is not true in symbolic terms. Twa were the first of Rwanda's three ethnicities to suffer stigmatization, and this predated European colonialism by...

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