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Libérte, Egalité, And Fraternité: France, Rwanda, And The Road To Genocide, Rachel Refkin
Libérte, Egalité, And Fraternité: France, Rwanda, And The Road To Genocide, Rachel Refkin
Honors Theses
The following senior thesis examines France’s political, economic, and military relationship with Rwanda from 1962-present. It analyzes the questionable success of the French humanitarian intervention, dubbed Operation Turquoise, during the Rwandan genocide. Moreover, it explores how the neocolonial relationship between the two countries, and the so-called Françafrique system, while demonstrating the ways in which this relationship juxtaposed certain French notions of libérte, égalité, and fraternité. This paper explains how, before Belgian colonialism, the Hutu-Tutsi division was characterized by considerable ethnic fluidity but also social class differences. Yet, due to the fact that the Tutsi enjoyed a position of privilege during …
Une Analyse De L’Idéal De La Négritude À Travers Le Travail Écrit De Léopold Senghor, Anna Mcgillicuddy
Une Analyse De L’Idéal De La Négritude À Travers Le Travail Écrit De Léopold Senghor, Anna Mcgillicuddy
Honors Theses
The process of colonizing a country is extremely complex. It is a combination of languages, traditions, races, beliefs and experiences. Sometimes the colonization of a country manifests itself in a battle between cultures. I will study the people, the political, economic, educational systems and all the changes in each society to deduce the influence of a different culture. Art and literature are representations, reflections and thoughts of individuals and a society. The French participation in Senegal, which was probably at its peak in the late 1800s to the 1900s, brought new practices, customs and institutions including the French language. The …