Books like God sleeps in Rwanda by Joseph Sebarenzi

Philip Gourevitch’s first‑hand account traces the 1994 Rwandan genocide, its swift aftermath, and the personal, political, and psychological challenges that shaped Rwanda’s path toward justice and national cohesion.

A powerful personal narrative tracing six‑year‑old Clemantine Wamariya and her sister’s seven‑year journey across seven African nations, culminating in asylum in the United States after surviving the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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 the United States, the way he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized ambitions for Rwanda.

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda, transformed the Hotel Mille Collines into a sanctuary for over 1,200 refugees during the 1994 genocide, using diplomacy and courage to shield them from death.

"Imagine being born into a world where everything about you--the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth--designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people. Scholastique Mukasonga's Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda--the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bitterwsweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance, and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window onto an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror"--