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

by Stephen Kinzer ( )

• ISBN13: 9780470730034
• ISBN10: 047073003X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

You Can't Just Pretend Nothing Happened

Elegant Golden-Red Beauties

That's Why I Survived

A Glass of Milk

Devastation

Creatures from Another World

We Just Didn't Get It

This Is a Coup

Madam, They're Killing My People

What a Farce

Something Really Fills Up in Your Mind

Rwanda Doesn't Matter

The Tricky Part

When You're Not Serious, You Can't Be Correct

Breathless with Fear

Famous for Just One Thing

The Web Grows Big

We Aspire to Be Like Others

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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