Download or read book Waiting for the Sunrise written by Elizabeth Gatorano and published by Baha'i Publishing Trust. This book was released on 2008 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a personal account of an interracial familys struggle against pervasive racism in the U.S. and the horrors of the civil war that plagued Rwanda in 1994. Raised in the American Midwest, author Elizabeth Gatorano, who is White, had no idea of the trials she would face after marrying Phanuel, who is Black and an immigrant to the U.S. from Rwanda. Prejudice against their marriage followed them and their children wherever they went, often making them the focus of racist discrimination and threats of violence at home and at work. Throughout these ordeals, Liz and Phanuel responded to hostility with love and patience, their faith in each other and in God remaining unshakable, even in the darkest hours. Together, they overcame all obstacles in their path, and they continue to help those in need today.

Download or read book The Skull Beneath The Skin written by Mark Huband and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War award-winning journalist Mark Huband argues that foreign involvement in Africa has been the single most destructive element in the continent's history. He argues that the catastrophes that have erupted since the end of the Cold War are a legacy of that long foreign involvement, and that stab

Download or read book Touched by Fire written by Elliott Leyton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the rapes and massacres, the plagues, the famines, the floods, or the droughts erupt in far-off places, the world stands still. MSF does not. They are the "smoke jumpers" among international aid organizations. While others are often stymied or delayed by bureaucratic red tape, the men and women of Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) move in. They provide food and clean water. They dig latrines. They set up first-aid stations and field hospitals. They treat all-comers according to need. Often they are the last to remain in situations abandoned by others as too dangerous. The risks they take are moral and ethical as well as mortal. They are acutely aware that giving aid is controversial. Does it really do any good to save a child from murder one day when it will probably starve in the weeks ahead? Is it appropriate to bring expensive western medicine into a country that, in the long run, can't afford it? Should relief be given to civilians who are being starved on purpose, as part of a cynical political game, by a local warlord? Elliot Leyton and Greg Locke saw something of the implications of these and other questions when they travelled to Rwanda in the fall of 1996. There they found themselves plunged into a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Hundreds of thousands of people were on the move. Armed militias and hostile armies lurked in the background. Mass starvation, plague, and an eruption into civil or criminal violence were immediate possibilities. The two Canadians, one an internationally recognized expert on the psychology of killing, the other an experienced photo-journalist, had a rare opportunity to observe MSF in action at a timewhen the stress was enormous and its resources were stretched to the limit. They watched and listened, to the perpetrators of violence and their victims, to the survivors and those who gave them assistance, and, above all, to the people of MSF who dedicate themselves to saving lives because, in the words of one MSFer: "The world can afford a humanitarian ideal." The result of Leyton and Locke's research is an extraordinary written and visual record of small miracles performed in the midst of catastrophe.

Download or read book Rwanda Where Souls Turn to Dust written by Patrick Habamenshi Um'Khonde and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Um'Khonde Patrick Habamenshi, was appointed Minister of Agriculture in Rwanda in October 2003, two days after his thirty-fifth birthday. It started as a dream but rapidly became a nightmare marked by constant threats, insults, and unfounded accusations. He resigned in May 2005 and sought refuge in the Canadian Embassy in Kigali. The following year was a slow downward spiral to the same hell that decimated Rwanda in 1994, a hell of injustice and senseless persecution. The experience left him broken beyond words. He was left with the demons and ghosts of his broken country and with tortured experiences that would surely destroy him if he succumbed to them. Rwanda, Where Souls Turn to Dust is the remarkable story of his healing path to rebuilding his mind, body and spirit. He had to move away from the negative things that had been dominating his life, the loss of his loved ones, and the loss of his previous dreams. He rebuilt his life from the ashes of his old life in Rwanda, a life free of hatred, free of prejudice, and free of fears.

Download or read book Me Against My Brother written by Scott Peterson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book An Ordinary Man written by Paul Rusesabagina and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable autobiography of the globally-recognized human rights champion whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda “Fascinating…your book is called An Ordinary Man, yet you took on an extraordinary feat with courage, determination, and diplomacy.” – Oprah, O, The Oprah Magazine As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the 1994 genocide, Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, turned the luxurious Hotel Milles Collines into a refuge for more than 1,200 Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees, while fending off their would-be killers with a combination of diplomacy and deception. In An Ordinary Man, he tells the story of his childhood, retraces his accidental path to heroism, revisits the 100 days in which he was the only thing standing between his “guests” and a hideous death, and recounts his subsequent life as a refugee and activist.

Download or read book Christianity in Uganda Tanzania Rwanda and Burundi written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frida written by Frida Umuhoza Gashumba and published by Sovereign World Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the true, dramatic story of life amid the horror of genocide, but more importantly of how a woman's life was utterly transformed by the power to forgive and love her enemies. Amazingly, in the midst of the traumas Frida found Christ. Her story is for all those who have gone through life shattering experiences and are unable to forgive.

Download or read book Africa written by John McIlwaine and published by Hans Zell Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, this is a new revised and substantially expanded edition of a highly acclaimed reference resource that evaluates the leading sources of information (other than bibliographies) on Africa South of the Sahara.

Download or read book Visiting Rwanda written by Dervla Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part travel narrative, part study of genocide and its aftermath, part polemic against the "international community", this volume presents the writings of Dervla Murphy as she travelled through Rwanda in 1997.

Download or read book Central and Equatorial Africa Area Bibliography written by Gordon Harris and published by Scarecrow Area Bibliographies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about texts relating to eleven states in the heart of the African continent: Chad, Central African Republic, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, People's Republic of the Congo (formerly Congo-Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Congo-Kinshasa and Zaire), Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, and Malawi. Perfect as a starting point for the beginning researcher, or to supplement a more adept scholar's reference list. Also useful for librarians developing a collection on Africa studies.

Download or read book A Passage To Africa written by George Alagiah and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of Britain's most respected television journalists, with a reputation built up over many years of covering world events' Guardian 'Tributes will rightly be paid to a fantastic journalist and brilliant broadcaster - but George was the most decent, principled, kindest, most honourable man I have ever worked with' Jon Sopel As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana - the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire. A Passage to Africa is Alagiah's shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that is infused with hope, insight and outrage. In vivid and evocative prose and with a fine eye for detail, Alagiah's viewpoint is spiked with the freshness of the young George on his arrival in Ghana, the wonder with which he recounts his first impressions of Africa and the affection with which he dresses his stories of his early family life. A sense of possibility lingers, even though the book is full of uncomfortable truths. It is a book neatly balanced on his integrity and sense of obligation in his role as a writer and reporter. The shock of recognition is always there, but it is the personal element that gives A PASSAGE TO AFRICA its originality. Africa becomes not only a group of nations or a vast continent, but an epic of individual pride and suffering.

Download or read book Strategic Security Issues in Sub Saharan Africa written by Michael J. Siler and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text challenges the current thinking on strategic security issues in Sub-Saharan Africa by bringing the entire literature together on all of the regions and countries. It provides compelling international and foreign perspectives using various information systems. The book will interest those who want to understand the state and direction of strategic security studies on the continent. The sources in this bibliography are based on peer-reviewed journals, international nongovernmental studies, governmental reports, academic textbooks, and relevant newspaper articles. This volume is tightly organized and has a wide analytical scope and a great deal of information. Focus is on international and U.S influences driving African strategic security issues. The regional and country specific dimensions framing African strategic security issues are covered. This bibliography provides both an organization of expert scholarship and a strong concentration of core information profiles on Sub-Saharan Africa that is strategically based.

Download or read book Flight for Life written by Faustin Uzabakiliho and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stars of Rwanda written by Wiljo Woodi Oosterom and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On a Hill Far Away written by C. Albert Snyder and published by Indianapolis, IN : Light and Life. This book was released on 1995 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 18, soldier Al Snyder faced the possi-bility of being involved in an invasion of Japan. 50 years later in 1994 as a distinguished missionary doctor in the remote hills of Rwanda, Al with his lovely wife Louise, faced another peril.

Download or read book True North written by Hamilton Wende and published by Porcupine Press Trading Under Dgr Writing & Resear. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis looked at me 'So you want advice?' He put his fork down. 'Look here, ' he told me. 'You're lucky, things are changing just at the right time for someone like you. The whole of Africa is opening up to you. If I were your age, the first thing I would do is put on a rucksack and go north. I would go and see Africa, and write about what I saw.'