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- Location(s): France, Rwanda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
AN AWARD WINNING NOVEL FOLLOWING THREE GENERATIONS TORN APART BY THE TUTSI GENOCIDE Blanche returns to Rwanda after building a life in Bordeaux with her husband and young son, Stokely. Reuniting with her mother Immaculata, old wounds are reopened...
- Location(s): England, Rwanda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 Shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award That was the day that Mama made the rules: If they come, run. Be quiet and run. But not together. Never together. If...
- Location(s): Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
No-one travels like the renowned writer-adventurer Richard Grant and, really, no-one should. Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons in Bandit Roads, he now plunges with his trademark recklessness and curiosity into Africa. Setting out...
- Location(s): Rwanda
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
As a teenager, Joseph Sebarenzi fled Rwanda, escaping a campaign of genocide that saw 800,000 Tutsis murdered in just ninety days. He returned to Rwanda and was elected speaker of parliament. Following a plot to assassinate him, he fled...
- Location(s): Kigali
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
As snow falls outside his home in the Jura mountains, the Swiss former aid worker David Hohl – tells an old school friend how he witnessed the massacres in Kigali. A young idealist, David arrives in Rwanda in 1990...
- Location(s): Rwanda
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi and his kind are not supposed to win. When the president’s assassination plummets the country into sudden and bloody...
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
- Location(s): Rwanda, Kigali
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1990s
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda’s genocide. All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers,...
- Location(s): Rwanda
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
One couple’s inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to...
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
- Location(s): Rwanda
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1990s
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Rwanda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Greta Jellings blushes and bumbles her way through her carefully ordered existence, forever constrained by what her mother would have said and done. ‘No expectation, no disappointment’ was one of her mother’s mantras. It serves Greta well too. It...
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