farmers’ experiences, reactions and resistance to settlement and agricultural reforms in post-genocide rwanda

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You talk to them and you think they listen, but the people do nothing with the good advice you give them. They say “yes” because they are tired of you and your speeches, but they are never convinced... They are resistant; they are really difficult (district official in Rwanda’s southern province quoted by Ansoms, 2009: 10). Since overt resistance to government policy in post-genocide Rwanda is risky, discontent is more commonly expressed through everyday resistance... (Newbury, 2011: 236)