A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

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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 first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous tale, learn about Kagame’s early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and america, the way he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized ambitions for Rwanda.
Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008: Fourteen years after the 1994 genocide that claimed 800,000 lives in 100 days, Rwandans continue the day-to-day work of rebuilding their shattered country. In light of up to date reports that one in four people suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder–which Rwandans aptly describe as ihahamuka or “breathless with fear”–how is recovery even conceivable? Searching for answers, foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer traveled extensively during Rwanda where he observed an astonishing economic and political transformation based surprisingly on Asian models, and the implementation of unconventional reconciliation efforts. The writer also conducted extensive interviews with Rwanda’s enigmatic president, Paul Kagame. The results of Kinzer’s quest is A Thousand Hills, a page-turning story of a society desperately trying to regain its breath, and an ambitious and autocratic leader’s unrelenting efforts to breathe life into its future. This is very important reading, even supposing you’ve read earlier accounts by Canadian general Roméo Dallaire, journalists Phillip Gourevitch and Samantha Power, and the heroic Paul Rusesabagina immortalized in the film Hotel Rwanda. —Lauren Nemroff
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 first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous tale, learn about Kagame’s early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and america, the way he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized ambitions for Rwanda.

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