Jean-Pierre Chretien is a French historian whose focus of study revolves around Central Africa, with a specialization in Burundi and Rwanda. His work on the genocides in that region has been published in French. In 2003, his L'Afrique des Grands Lacs: Deux mille ans d'histoire, appeared in English translation as The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History.
The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History, provides the genealogy and history of the African Great Lakes region. It details the scene of a series of overlapping tragedies that have overturned its geopolitical, economic, social, and demographic stability.
Jean-Pierre Chretien is on the staff of the CNRS in Paris. Some of his other publications include Rural History of Great Lakes Africa: Research Guide, which was published in 1983, Ambiguities of Innovation: Rural Societies and Technologies in Central and West Africa in the Twentieth Century, published in 1984, and others.
