Posts Tagged ‘Rick Bass’
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Consider your immediate associations with the word Rwanda. The image of Don Cheadle’s face from Hotel Rwanda may flash in your mind, and those from a generation older than I may even remember actual news stories that relate to Rwanda’s troubled history or Philip Gourevitch’s masterful We Are Here To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. As in many African nations, Rwanda’s post-colonial period has been plagued by revolts, massacres and civil war, specifically the ethnic majority Hutus dominating the Tutsis, the former comprising 85% of the country’s 11 million population. In his new book, bundled in the new issue of McSweeney’s, prolific fiction and nonfiction writer and activist Rick Bass revisits Rwanda’s history as he contemplates its present and future.