Better late than never right? Welcome to the Bookworms Carnival where today you will get a great list of recommendations of picture books, middle grade fiction, young adult and adult fiction and non-fiction books that are set in Africa or have an Africa theme.
I love to read literature set in Africa, so it’s my hope [...]
It took me an agonizing six weeks to read We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories by Rwandaby Philip Gourevitch. Don’t let the word agonizing fool you though, because I thought this book was really important for one simple reason: the more we know, the less [...]
In April 1994, the Rwandan government executed one of the swiftest and bloodiest genocides in world history when the Hutu majority killed more than 800,000 Tutsi’s in just three months. When people said, “Never again” after the Nazi Holocaust, I suppose they didn’t really mean it as many of the world powers did [...]
When I read a review from Heather over at Book Addiction for Immaculee Ilibagiza’s Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, I knew that I had to read it and soon. So thank you Heather because this book was unbelievable. I’ll start off by saying that everybody should take [...]
