Rwanda

by Andy Koopmans, Robert I. Rotberg (Editor)

Discusses the geography, history, economy, political situation, and culture of the small, landlocked African nation.

87 pages, Library Binding

Published January 1, 2004

About the author

Andy is the author of sixteen non-fiction titles, including histories of the Leopold & Loeb trial, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Blues, and biographies of figures including Bruce Lee, Charles Manson, Pol Pot, and Nelson Mandela. He is also the editor of a volume of essays, Examining Pop Culture: Crime and Criminals.

Andy is also a fiction writer, essayist, and poet with publications in journals and anthologies including Black Scat Noir, Black Scat Review, Sunshine Noir II, Fiction International, Central Park, The Southern Anthology, Collage & Bricolage, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Conceptions Southwest, Heaven Bone, and others. He is the author of two fiction collections: Narrative Cult Visions (1997 MFA thesis) and The Veronicas of Our Own Perversions (2024).

Reviews

[Kelsey Breseman · Rating 1 out of 5]

Weirdly uninformative, oscillated in the (fairly tombstone) text between "one local handicraft is..." and frequent callbacks to the Rwandan genocide. Also a pretty depressing take compared to other books on Rwanda I've read, though this could be related to its now-outdated publication date.

[Dionne · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice, short book about Rwanda.