Kimenyi, Alexandre

About the author: Alexandre Kimenyi is a Professor of Linguistics, Ethnic Studies and African languages at California State University. His research interests include all aspects of theoretical and descriptive linguistics as well as Bantu languages. His other published books on linguistics are Studies in Kinyarwanda and Bantu Phonology, A Reactional Grammar of Kinyarwanda and Kinyarwanda and Kirundi Names (Mellen 1989).

Anatomy of Genocide: State- Sponsored Mass- Killings in the Twentieth Century

2001 0-7734-7600-8
Essays from the first International Conference on Genocide by the world’s leading experts (history, law, political science, sociology, ethnic studies, philosophy, anthropology, et al) all related issues.

Kinyarwanda and Kirundi Names: A Semiolinguistic Analysis of Bantu Onomastics

1989 0-88946-185-6
Demonstrates that names, like oral histories in non-literature societies, can be useful tools for revealing the political and social systems of the 2 countries in which these languages are spoken.

Tonal Grammar of Kinyarwanda - Autosegmental and Metrical Analysis

2002 0-7734-7161-8