In addition to interviews with key government officials and diplomats, this two-hour documentary offers eyewitness accounts of the genocide from those who experienced it firsthand. Buy

Labels: History, Politics, Rwanda

'Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus - if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it,' Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. In this complex and wrenching book he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute. Buy

Labels: History, Politics, Rwanda

Don Cheadle stars in the true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsis refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. Buy

Labels: History, Politics, Rwanda

Labels: History, Politics, Rwanda

Whether you choose to visit mountain gorillas in Rwanda, trek Tanzania's Kilimanjaro or join the beach parties at Lamu and Zanzibar, you'll have a wild time in East Africa. Buy

Labels: Rwanda, Travel Guide, Uganda

Dallaire - a career man in the Canadian military - was informed that he might be asked to lead a UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, to which he replied excitedly, "Rwanda, that's somewhere in Africa, isn't it?" Fourteen months later, he would return from his service there a nearly broken man, having failed to prevent the unfathomable massacre of 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus, which took place over a mere 100 days. Buy

Labels: History, Politics, Rwanda

Mamdani's highly-readable account focuses on the political construction of Hutu and Tutsi as racial/ethnic identities, tracing the tale from the pre-colonial era, through Belgium's administration of the country, to the 1959 Revolution and subsequent attempts to develop an overarching sense of Rwandan nationhood. Buy

Labels: History, Politics, Rwanda

The value of Meredith's towering history of modern Africa rests not so much in its incisive analysis, or its original insights; it is the sheer readability of the project, combined with a notable lack of pedantry, which makes it one of the decade's most important works on Africa. Spanning the entire continent, and covering the major upheavals more or less chronologically...from the promising era of independence to the most recent spate of infamies...Meredith brings us on a journey that is as illuminating as it is gruelling. Buy

Labels: Ghana, History, Kenya, Politics, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

Debunking the notion that U.S. leaders were unaware of the horrors as they were occurring against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Rwandan Tutsis, and Bosnians during the past century, Power discusses how much was known and when, and argues that much human suffering could have been alleviated through a greater effort by the U.S. She does not claim that the U.S. alone could have prevented such horrors, but does make a convincing case that even a modest effort would have had significant impact. Buy

Labels: Politics, Rwanda

Prunier, a senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, has written the first comprehensive account in English that examines the causes and events of this civil war. Prunier points out, correctly, the substantive underlying causes: a colonial legacy that disrupted pre-colonial ethnic relations, political chaos and repression, economic dislocation, Western bungling and neglect, the role of the church, and overpopulation to name a few. Buy

Labels: History, Politics, Rwanda

No ordinary man could recount his life in Rwanda with such eloquence and style as Paul Rusesabagina. Mixing fascinating details of the culture and geography of his country, he lays a background for understanding the genocidal massacres that brought his land to inhumane ruins in 1994. Buy

Labels: Biography, Inspirational, Rwanda

"After reading the first paragraph and faced with the statement, 'Three million people die each year from AIDS, a death toll that has been compared to twenty fully loaded 747s crashing every single day for a year', it seemed evident that there was more to this disease than I first thought. I remembered how many stories I saw on the news about airplanes crashing and the news coverage that followed. I can't remember the last news story I watched about AIDS" - Amazon Review. Buy

Labels: Development, Ghana, Health, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

A clear-eyed look at the Rwandan genocide is offered in Sometimes in April, a frank take on the 1994 slaughter that claimed upwards of 800,000 lives. Buy

Labels: History, Politics, Rwanda

Janice Booth's Rwanda guide not only is the most updated travel guidebook on Rwanda, but it also goes cuturally/historically where the other guidebooks do not go. Due to the genocide, and subsequent arrival of international aid, the entire infrastructure of the country, especially Kigali, had changed, and so the nuts and bolts information of hotels, transport, and other practicalities found in the Bradt guide are of great use. Buy

Labels: Rwanda, Travel Guide