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: Stories from Rwanda
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

Rick Warren
In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda. ...more
Rick Warren, The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones

Philip Gourevitch
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. A vigorous totalitarian order requires that the people be invested in the leaders' scheme, and while genocide may be the most perverse and ambitious means to this end, it is also the most comprehensive. In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary instance of the chaos and anarchy associated with collapsed states. In fact, the genocide was the product of order, authoritarianism, decades of modern politic ...more
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

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