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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,589 ratings — published 1998
Our Lady of the Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,774 ratings — published 2012
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.44 — 48,166 ratings — published 2006
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,999 ratings — published 2003
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,898 ratings — published 2018
Machete Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,053 ratings — published 2003
Petit pays (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,963 ratings — published 2016
Baking Cakes in Kigali (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,991 ratings — published 2009
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,185 ratings — published 1994
Running the Rift (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,253 ratings — published 2010
Cockroaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,969 ratings — published 2006
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,829 ratings — published 2006
The Barefoot Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,974 ratings — published 2008
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.14 — 837 ratings — published 2007
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,698 ratings — published 2000
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,178 ratings — published 2008
Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,443 ratings — published 1999
All Your Children, Scattered: A Novel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.13 — 927 ratings — published 2019
Say You're One of Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.55 — 16,486 ratings — published 2008
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.10 — 804 ratings — published 2006
When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.08 — 628 ratings — published 2001
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.19 — 258 ratings — published 1995
Jacaranda (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.44 — 11,245 ratings — published 2024
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,397 ratings — published 2021
Murambi. The Book of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,009 ratings — published 2004
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.20 — 873 ratings — published 1996
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,702 ratings — published 2010
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,074 ratings — published 2001
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,454 ratings — published 2000
God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.05 — 582 ratings — published 2009
Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,437 ratings — published 2000
Rwanda, Inc.: How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.30 — 339 ratings — published 2012
Broken Memory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.56 — 574 ratings — published 2007
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.45 — 94 ratings — published 1999
In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.27 — 252 ratings — published 2018
Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.95 — 219 ratings — published 2004
In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,529 ratings — published 2018
The Shadow of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,737 ratings — published 1998
As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.35 — 372 ratings — published 2009
A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.13 — 205 ratings — published 2000
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,298 ratings — published 1983
Sister Deborah (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.43 — 386 ratings — published 2022
Inside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story ... and Why It Matters Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.92 — 293 ratings — published 2014
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.93 — 606 ratings — published 2003
The Eternal Audience of One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,002 ratings — published 2019
A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.13 — 854 ratings — published 2013
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,118 ratings — published 2002
Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.85 — 169 ratings — published 2002
“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 political theorizing and indoctrination, and one of the most meticulously administered states
in history. And strange as it may sound, the ideology- or what Rwandans call "the logic"-
-of genocide was promoted as a way
not to create suffering but to alleviate it. The specter of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people
in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual-always an annoyance to totality -ceases to exist.”
― We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
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 political theorizing and indoctrination, and one of the most meticulously administered states
in history. And strange as it may sound, the ideology- or what Rwandans call "the logic"-
-of genocide was promoted as a way
not to create suffering but to alleviate it. The specter of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people
in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual-always an annoyance to totality -ceases to exist.”
― We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
“In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan
-Thérèse Nyirabayovu”
― Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa
-Thérèse Nyirabayovu”
― Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa
