Burundi

Books in this genre are set in or about Burundi.

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Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Baho!
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness
Jacaranda
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Weep Not, Refugee
Life after Violence: A People's Story of Burundi (African Arguments)
The Tears of a Man Flow Inward: Growing Up in the Civil War in Burundi
The Chimpanzee Whisperer: A Life of Love and Loss, Compassion and Conservation
The True Sources of the Nile
The Other Half of Augusta Hope
The Yellow House
Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) (Volume 0)
Song of the Butterflies by R.M. LeslieNot Just Yet. Egypt 2011 by Mohamed Abdel-MaksoudLife and Death in Nyamata by Omar NdizeyeMinna, Saturday by Chizzy Ndukwe N.Life in Woke America by Joel Rakow
Best Debut Short Stories From Africa!
12 books — 19 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
241 books — 68 voters

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhat the Earl Desires by Aliyah BurkeThe Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuHer Reluctant Viscount by Aliyah BurkeA Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
Africans in Romance
39 books — 11 voters
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose UtomiSon of the Storm by Suyi Davies OkungbowaEverfair by Nisi ShawlBlood Scion by Deborah Falaye
Africa-Influenced Epic Fantasy
40 books — 10 voters

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
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


Pierre Ryckmans
We want to stay in Ruanda-Urundi because in the lives of peoples and people there are interests other than purely economic interests. We want to stay there just because there is still much to do, because we have begun a great human work in that country that we want to bring to a successful conclusion; because we have accepted a mission of guardianship that we want to fulfil to the end. And when the objectives laid down in the [UN] Charter are achieved, thanks to us, thanks to our help, that peop ...more
Pierre Ryckmans

Gaël Faye
I'm neither Hutu nor Tutsi ... Those are not my stories. You're my friends because I love you, not because you're from this or that ethnic group. I don't want anything to do with all that! ...more
Gaël Faye, Small Country

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