From the Editors

We are enormously pleased to welcome Catharine Newbury and David Newbury as the Book Review Editors for the African Studies Review. We look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration as all the editors seek to bring the very best scholarship on Africa to the attention of readers of this journal. In this their inaugural issue, they highlight several new books that focus on the April 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, a topic to which they bring a distinctive expertise.

Catharine Newbury is Professor of Government at Smith College and Five College Professor of Government and African Studies. Her research in African politics has focused on ethnicity and the state, democratization, the politics of peasants and women, and the politics of violence in Francophone Central Africa. Currently she is the director of the Five College African Scholars Program.

Currently the Gwendolen Carter Professor of African Studies at Smith College, where he is a member of the history department, David Newbury has taught in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Congo, as well as several universities in the U.S. and Canada. His research interests include historiography, environmental history, and a range of issues in Central and East African history, from precolonial social identities to the multiple crises of the 1990s.