rwanda

Discusses the history, geography, industry, culture, and people of the small country in east-central Africa.

Outlines the circumstances that led to the genocide in Rwanda, where nearly one million people of an ethnic minority were exterminated in one hundred days, and discusses international reactions and the aftermath.

Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.

A memoir in which Rosamond Halsay Carr tells about her experiences living in Rwanda, sharing the story of her marriage which brought her to Africa, her divorce and decision to remain in Rwanda as manager of a flower plantation, and her later efforts to turn the plantation into a shelter for lost and orphaned children.

Presents a collection of oral histories from Tutsi survivors and confessed Hutu killers of the Rwandan genocide when the Hutus were released from prison and allowed to return to their homes.

The true story of Immacul?e Ilibagiza who endured the murder of her family as a result of genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and how she was able to later forgive those who had killed them.

The author brings together the personal accounts of several survivors of the genocide that occurred in Rwanda during the late 1990s, as they describe the deaths of their family and friends and their lives today.

Presents the companion book to the film that describes the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the efforts of a hotel manager to save over one thousand people from death and contains over seventy illustrated photographs and movie stills, essays on the history of the genocide, and the complete screenplay.

American journalist Scott Peterson describes the violent events that have torn apart Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda during the 1990s, including the involvement of the U.S.

Emmanuel, an employee of the Rwandan National Park, saves several gorillas from poachers and sets out on a tracking expedition to count gorillas for an upcoming census.