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Rwanda : Assassins sans frontières: Enquête sur le régime de Kagame - Essais - documents
« Un récit important et passionnant » Stephen Smith, ex-journaliste au Monde et Libération. « L'une des révisions historiques les plus approfondies de Kagamé et son régime. » The Guardian « Une épopée de sang, d'amertume et de trahison. Une histoire captivante » The Times Best seller cité comme meilleur livre de l’année par le Financial Times et The Economist, Cette enquête journalistique est une refonte dramatique de l'histoire moderne du Rwanda, pays ravagé par l’un des plus grands génocides du XXe siècle. Ce récit audacieux, tiré des témoignages directs et proches de Paul Kagamé, déchire le script officiel, selon lequel un groupe idéaliste de jeunes rebelles aurait renversé le régime génocidaire de Kigali, inaugurant une ère de paix, de prospérité et de stabilité, jusqu’à faire du Rwanda, le chouchou des donateurs occidentaux. Michela Wrong détaille en particulier l'histoire de Patrick Karegeya, ex-chef du renseignement extérieur du Rwanda, pour dresser le portrait d'une dictature africaine à l'image de son président, qui a érigé la vengeance en signature de son règne, en poursuivant ses anciens compagnons d'armes jusqu'au bout du monde. La journaliste examine les questions qui hantent le passé : pourquoi tant d'ex-rebelles contestent la version officielle du missile qui a tué les présidents rwandais et burundais ? Pourquoi les massacres n'ont-ils pas pris fin lorsque les rebelles ont pris le contrôle du pays ? Pourquoi plusieurs de ces mêmes rebelles, la victoire assurée, ont préféré fuir le pays ? Michela Wrong est une journaliste anglaise (Reuters, BBC, Financial Times) connue dans le monde entier pour sa connaissance de l’Afrique. Elle a couvert à la fois les derniers jours du dictateur Mobutu et le génocide au Rwanda. Elle a reçu le prix James Cameron 2010 « pour sa vision morale et son intégrité professionnelle ».
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Published March 30, 2023
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About the author
Michela Wrong
6 books248 followersHalf-Italian, half-British, Michela Wrong was born in 1961. She grew up in London and took a degree in Philosophy and Social Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge and a diploma in journalism at Cardiff.
She joined Reuters news agency in the early 1980s and was posted as a foreign correspondent to Italy, France and Ivory Coast. She became a freelance journalist in 1994, when she moved to then-Zaire and found herself covering both the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda and the final days of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko for the BBC and Reuters. She later moved to Kenya, where she spent four years covering east, west and central Africa for the Financial Times newspaper.
In 2000 she published her first book, "In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz", the story of Mobutu's rise and fall, which won a PEN prize for non-fiction. Her second book, "I didn't do it for you", which focused on the little-written-about Red Sea nation of Eritrea, came out in 2005 and was hailed as a "gripping political thriller" by Monica Ali.
Her third book, published in February 2009, was "It's Our Turn to Eat", which tracks the story of Kenyan corruption whistleblower John Githongo, who sought refuge in her London flat. Boycotted by Nairobi bookshops terrified of being sued, it has become an underground bestseller in Kenya, distributed by local churches, radio stations and non-governmental groups and debated in town hall meetings. Described as reading "like a cross between Le Carre and Solzhenitsyn", it has triggered expressions of interest from US and South African film directors. It was named as one of the Economist's "best books of 2009" and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Michela Wrong's non-fiction books on contemporary Africa aim to be accessible to both members of the general public and experts in the field. They have become a must-read for diplomats, aid officials, journalists and strategists based on the continent and regularly feature on the "required reading" lists of International Relations and African Studies courses at university. She was awarded the 2010 James Cameron prize for journalism "that combined moral vision and professional integrity
She currently lives in London and is regularly interviewed by the BBC, Al Jazeera and Reuters on her areas of expertise. She has published opinion pieces and book reviews in the Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Standpoint and Foreign Policy magazine, and travel pieces for Traveler Conde Nast. She speaks fluent Italian and French.
In 2014 she was appointed literary director of the Miles Morland Foundation, which funds a range of African literary festivals and a scholarship scheme for African writers. She is a trustee of the Africa Research Institute and an advisor to the Centre for Global Development.
She joined Reuters news agency in the early 1980s and was posted as a foreign correspondent to Italy, France and Ivory Coast. She became a freelance journalist in 1994, when she moved to then-Zaire and found herself covering both the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda and the final days of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko for the BBC and Reuters. She later moved to Kenya, where she spent four years covering east, west and central Africa for the Financial Times newspaper.
In 2000 she published her first book, "In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz", the story of Mobutu's rise and fall, which won a PEN prize for non-fiction. Her second book, "I didn't do it for you", which focused on the little-written-about Red Sea nation of Eritrea, came out in 2005 and was hailed as a "gripping political thriller" by Monica Ali.
Her third book, published in February 2009, was "It's Our Turn to Eat", which tracks the story of Kenyan corruption whistleblower John Githongo, who sought refuge in her London flat. Boycotted by Nairobi bookshops terrified of being sued, it has become an underground bestseller in Kenya, distributed by local churches, radio stations and non-governmental groups and debated in town hall meetings. Described as reading "like a cross between Le Carre and Solzhenitsyn", it has triggered expressions of interest from US and South African film directors. It was named as one of the Economist's "best books of 2009" and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Michela Wrong's non-fiction books on contemporary Africa aim to be accessible to both members of the general public and experts in the field. They have become a must-read for diplomats, aid officials, journalists and strategists based on the continent and regularly feature on the "required reading" lists of International Relations and African Studies courses at university. She was awarded the 2010 James Cameron prize for journalism "that combined moral vision and professional integrity
She currently lives in London and is regularly interviewed by the BBC, Al Jazeera and Reuters on her areas of expertise. She has published opinion pieces and book reviews in the Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Standpoint and Foreign Policy magazine, and travel pieces for Traveler Conde Nast. She speaks fluent Italian and French.
In 2014 she was appointed literary director of the Miles Morland Foundation, which funds a range of African literary festivals and a scholarship scheme for African writers. She is a trustee of the Africa Research Institute and an advisor to the Centre for Global Development.
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