Rwanda

Books in this genre are set in or about Rwanda.

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Our Lady of the Nile
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Machete Season
Petit pays
Baking Cakes in Kigali
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
Running the Rift
Cockroaches
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
The Barefoot Woman
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters
Binti by Nnedi OkoraforThe City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyWho Fears Death by Nnedi OkoraforEverfair by Nisi ShawlLagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
SF & F Atlas - Africa
57 books — 16 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,783 books — 1,659 voters
Zanzibar Uhuru by Anne M. ChappelBrick by Brick by Karen   ShermanLove, Life, and Elephants by Daphne SheldrickBloody Rwanda by Thomas HodgeThe Watermelon King by Daniel Royse
Books about East Africa
21 books — 14 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeNo Longer at Ease by Chinua AchebeSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihA Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
African Writers Series
239 books — 63 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Great Modern African Reads
88 books — 55 voters


Christopher Hitchens
The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, during the mass slaughter in the country. 'The terms Hutu and Tutsi,' he said severely, 'are merely ideological constructs, describing different relationships to the means and mode of production.' But of course! ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

Catherine Claire Larson
[A] clear picture came into John's mind. He could see Jesus hanging on the cross: stripped, beaten, mocked, despised, nails tearing through his flesh, and a crown of thorns on his head. And John could hear Jesus cry, from within the pain, "Forgive!" John realized his message was for him and for his fellow Rwandans. He understood that neither he, nor they, could wait until the pain was over in order to forgive. Jesus had cried out for the forgiveness of his killers when he was still in the midst ...more
Catherine Claire Larson, As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda

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