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
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
Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxSo Many Africas by Jill KandelKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayJourney Without Maps by Graham Greene
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa
121 books — 115 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Great Modern African Reads
88 books — 56 voters
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchLeft to Tell by Immaculée IlibagizaShake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire"A Problem from Hell" by Samantha PowerMachete Season by Jean Hatzfeld
Books on Rwanda genocide
92 books — 103 voters

Sin Padres, Ni Papeles by Stephanie L. CanizalesLes Misérables by Victor HugoZlata's Diary by Zlata FilipovićAnimal Farm by George OrwellIn Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
Human Rights Book Club
84 books — 4 voters


John Rucyahana
We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.
John Rucyahana, The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones

Philip Gourevitch
If, in the face of genocide, governments fear placing soldiers at risk, he [UN General Romeo Dallaire] said, "then don't send soldiers, send Boy Scouts" - which is basically what the world did in the refugee camps. Dallaire was in uniform when he faced the camera; his graying hair was closely cropped; he held his square jaw firmly outthrust; his chest was dappled with decorations. But he spoke with some agitation, and his carefully measured phrases did nothing to mask his sense of injury or his ...more
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

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