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: Stories from Rwanda
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
241 books — 69 voters
Terrorized in Rwanda by Anamaliya .Mon père, cette autre partie de moi qu on m a arrachée. Homma... by Jeanne HabyarimanaLife and Death in Nyamata by Omar NdizeyeLove Above All by Jean De Dieu MusabyimanaThe Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
Best Rwandan Authors
11 books — 11 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,898 books — 1,800 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
114 books — 71 voters

Scars of Silence by Roseline Chinasa OiwohSin Padres, Ni Papeles by Stephanie L. CanizalesLes Misérables by Victor HugoZlata's Diary by Zlata FilipovićTorah Of Trauma by Chaya Lerner
Human Rights Book Club
86 books — 14 voters


Rick Warren
In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda. ...more
Rick Warren, The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones

Christopher Hitchens
The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, during the mass slaughter in the country. 'The terms Hutu and Tutsi,' he said severely, 'are merely ideological constructs, describing different relationships to the means and mode of production.' But of course! ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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