journalists discovering continental catastrophe

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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe

9 reviews
Gérard Prunier

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Wonderful Writing
I would not have bothered to review this except to counter the incredibly negative and unfair reviews already posted. First off, he is a wonderful writer, clear, concise with a great flow that clearly tells the story. To get the background for this book, you really should read his book on the Rwandan genocide. The negative reviewers stated that he created stories of evil U.S. conspiracies ...

My Father, Maker of the Trees: How I Survived the Rwandan Genocide

11 reviews
Tracey Lawrence, Eric Irivuzumugabe

Baker Books, 2009

truly inspiring story
Just finished reading this book. WOW. There is so much I could say, but I will keep this simple. Eric has managed to not only give an account of the genocide, but also to explain the process of forgiveness. I have always had a problem with forgiveness, but wow after reading this I definitely have had an opportunity to do some deep thinking, and prayer about it. Eric and all survivors of the ...

Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey

13 reviews
Fergal Keane

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997

One of the most stunning books about Rwanda!
I couldn't put this book down, it was so engrossing and filled with the words only an eye-witness could write. The author's experience in Rwanda right before the genocide of more than a million people is both insightful and amazing. There is no better book on the subject! This is better than any novel horror story, this is real life; this is REALITY! The horrors that Africa has seen as a ...

Led By Faith 4-CD set: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide

3 reviews
Immaculee Ilibagiza

Hay House, 2008

A moving and wonderful story of amazing faith
This is a very powerful book-on-tape and is read so very well by Teresa Renee Pitts. I found myself amazed and uplifted by Immaculee's love for God, horrified by the evil of the genocide, and moved by the fabulous reading from Teresa Renee Pitts. This is a book I will be encouraging all my loved ones.

Led By Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide

21 reviews
Immaculee Ilibagiza

Hay House, 2009

Amazing Faith
This is the second book by Immaculee that I have read. I am amazed by her faith.

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

430 reviews
Immaculee Ilibagiza

Hay House, 2007

Left to Tell
A very powerful story for everyone to read. If you have doubts if there is a God, then reading this story will truly convince you that Immaculee could not have survived if God were not helping her. But it is not just a story of surviving the Rwanda genocide; it is about FORGIVING in order to heal.

Intended Consequences:Rwandan children Born of rape

3 reviews

Aperture, 2009

Intended Consequences
This is an amazing book. It is a little hard to hear the horrible stories but it also shows some amazing women. Even though I have never met these women, I can see the pain in the eyes of both the women and the children.

Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 (Global Issues Series)
Christopher C. Taylor

Berg Publishers, 2001

In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Acts of government-sponsored violence grew more frequent. The author of this book, who at that point was conducting fieldwork in Rwanda, on several occasions found either himself or the Rwandans accompanying him threatened with, or sustaining, bodily harm. Finally, ...

Left To Tell (1st); Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust [Left to Tell]
Immaculee (Author); Ilibagiza

H-House, 2008

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculees family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped ...

Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide (Revised)

9 reviews
Linda Melvern

Verso, 2006

Conspiracy Versus Conspiracy Theory
Original interview on Small Wars Journal.com "It is called The General's Book on Rwanda, and, right, the General is Rwandan Major General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, who was the head of the Nationale Gendarmerie during the period of time in which what has come to be referred to as the "Rwandan Genocide" of 100 days (7 April to 4 July 1994) took place. And everybody knows the boilerplate of ...

The Men Who Killed Me: Rwandan Survivors of Sexual Violence

Douglas & McIntyre, 2009

In the 100 days of genocide that ravaged Rwanda in 1994, one million people were killed and as many as 500,000 women and girls were raped. No one was spared. Grandmothers were raped in front of their grandchildren; young girls witnessed their families being massacred before being taken as sex slaves. Nearly all the women who survived were victims of sexual violence or were profoundly affected by it. An astounding 70 percent are HIV-positive. In ...

Rwanda: Shattered Lives-- Sexual Violence During the Rwandan Genocide
Africa Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch, 1996

Paul Kagame and Rwanda: Power, Genocide and the Rwandan Patriotic Front

3 reviews
Colin M. Waugh

McFarland & Company, 2004

Highly Recommended - Choice Current Reviews
Waugh, a specialist on African development, provides interesting, informative comment on Rwanda and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). He focuses neither on the causes or the progression of genocide in Rwanda, nor on the role of the UN or the US. Instead, he discusses the political life of Paul Kagame, the RPF's involvement in the Rwandan civil war and the postgenocidal period. Waugh is ...

Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)

3 reviews
Marie Beatrice Umutesi

University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

A story of incredible courage and humanity
This is the tragic and triumphant autobiography of a Rwandan Hutu woman who, after living for a couple of years as an internally displaced person in Rwanda and then surviving the horrific conditions in the camps that were - illegally - set up in by the UN in Zaire within shelling distance of the Rwandan border and further down the road in the death camp at Tingi Tingi, decided, along with tens ...

Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for ...

1 review
Dina Temple-Raston

Free Press, 2008

Subtle, Frightening, and Wise
This is a highly nuanced book that deals with all the complexities of an impossible situation. The characters are almost Shakepearean, some of them good, some of them foolish, some of them manipulative, some of them darkly evil. The situation is extraordinary. Temple-Raston has a wonderful ear and is able to let people tell their own stories, and make their own judgments. This is elegant, ...

Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France's Role in the Rwandan Genocide

2 reviews
Andrew Wallis

I. B. Tauris, 2007

Impeccably Researched
Andrew Wallis has done a superb job in bringing to light the French arrogance and cynicism that deliberately and directly helped a murderous regime succeed in carrying out a genocide and war. Thank god for researchers like Wallis whose impeccably-researched and extremely-readable book has uncovered the grim truth of French politics in Africa...all in the name of "la francophonie". The scary part ...

My Father, Maker of the Trees: How I Survived Rwandan Genocide

2 reviews
Eric Irivuzumugabe, Tracey Lawrence

Hovel Audio, 2009

Paul Pilmore
I recently listened to My Father, Maker of the Trees (Unabridged) by authors Eric Irivuzumugabe & Tracey Lawrence for the christianaudio Reviewers Program [...]. I can honestly say that not only did I really enjoy the book, but it challenged me at a deep level on many issues of life. It is a story about a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide who spent 15 days in a cypress tree trying to ...

The truth about Rwandan genocide and how I survived it: More Than 1 Million Lives Lost In Just 100 Days! ...
Selemani Murekezi

CreateSpace, 2010

This book tells you exactly what happened during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It tells you how it happened and why it happened. More than 1 million people were massacred while the whole world was just watching. I tell the story from the beginning to the end because I was there. I witnessed what a human being should never have to go through. That is the country I called home.

Witness to Genocide: The Children of Rwanda: Drawings by Child Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994

3 reviews

Friendship Press, 2000

Witness to Genocide: The Children of Rwanda
"Witness to Genocide: The Children of Rwanda" tells the horrific story of the genocide through drawings created by children traumatized by what they saw and lived through. It is a heartbreaking book that serves to remind the world the level to which we can sink. I photographed the children as they made some of these drawings, and it is an experience I will never forget. What started out as ...

Left to Tell (Abridged 4-CD Set); Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculee (Author); Ilibagiza, 2007

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculees family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped ...

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