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
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Central Africa
113 books — 71 voters

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Romance Novels Set in Africa
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Philip Gourevitch
There’s no way you can stop the international community from coming, given a situation like a genocide,’ General Kagame once said to me. ‘But they may provide the wrong remedies to our problems. On the one hand, they admit that a genocide took place in Rwanda, but they don’t seem to understand that someone was responsible for it, that someone planned and executed it. That’s why we get confused when there are insinuations that we should negotiate. When you ask, ‘with whom?’ they cannot tell you. ...more
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Nadia Owusu
This hypothesis, believed by many Western scholars at the time, held that there were two races present in Africa: the Hamitic race and the Negroid race. The Hamitic race was thought to be a superior race of people who originated in northern Africa. British historian C. G. Seligman went so far as to claim that all significant discoveries and advancements in African history, including those of the Ancient Egyptians, were achieved by Hamites. He argued that Hamites migrated into central Africa, bri ...more
Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks

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