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
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
Scars of Silence by Roseline Chinasa OiwohSin Padres, Ni Papeles by Stephanie L. CanizalesLes Misérables by Victor HugoZlata's Diary by Zlata FilipovićAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Human Rights Book Club
85 books — 13 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildNo Mercy by Redmond O'HanlonPeaceland by Severine Autesserre
Central Africa
113 books — 70 voters


John Rucyahana
{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half the people cannot read or write and very few have televisions, radio is the dominant media. The fact that some newspapers were still printing the truth didn't matter much to the part of the population that couldn't read. Most of the literate people were already politically aware. ...more
John Rucyahana, The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones

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

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