We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda was written in 1998 by the New Yorker journalist Philip Gourevitch. It is a work of non-fiction about the genocide which took place in Rwanda in 1994 and killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Gourevitch travels to Rwanda in search of the why and how of the genocide. The book is an attempt at understanding how a genocide was possible in this day and age and why nobody did anything to prevent it if everybody knew it was going to happen. It is a brilliant account and in no sensationalist. A must read if you are at all interested in politics, in Africa, and indeed the world.

Just hope that your country (individually) never needs the help of the International community.

                                        

The story of Paul Rusesabagina the hotel manager portrayed in Hotel Rwanda is one of the stories in Philip Gourovitch's book.

House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-torn Zimbabwe (Christina Lamb)

Although a lot of books written about Zimbabwe may end up repeating the same story, Christina Lamb tells her story differently. In the past books would be about the black man and how much pain the white community had inflicted on them, then the white community started being under attack and the same stories were told but with the black community being the enemy. Today all Zimbabweans, black and white are victims of the power hungry government. Christina Lamb tells the story of Aqui (a black Zimbabwean) and of Nigel (a white Zimbabwean). In House of Stone you are presented with two sides of the same story.

If you don’t know much about Zimbabwe, this is a great place to start.

                                      

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