First English translation of a novel comes face to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the swiftest, most terrifying killing spree in history. The novel recounts the story of a Rwandan history teacher, Cornelius Uvimana, who was living and working in Djibouti at the time of the massacre. He returns to Rwanda to try to comprehend the death of his family and to write a play about the events that took place there. As the novel unfolds, Cornelius begins to understand that as a writer, he must bear witness to the atrocities of the genocide. 181pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Poems that centre on the experiences of Tutsis from the village of Muzizi, forced into exile during the 1959-1963 troubles in Rwanda. Bib, map, notes, 154pp, UK. BLACKWORLD LINKS.

2006 9780953971336 Paperback

Before that fateful April day, Jeanne lived the life of a typical Rwandan girl. She bickered with her little sister, went to school, teased her brother. Then, in one horrifying night, everything changed. Political troubles unleashed a torrent of violence upon the Tutsi ethnic group. Poignant novel about the terrible costs of the Rwandan genocide. 352pp, UK. ANDERSEN PRESS.

The author's second volume of poetry moves a step further in his quest to create a literary tradition in English in Rwanda. 106pp. UK, 0953971325

2001 Paperback

Publisher's description: Brings to the English language the freshness of Rwanda's poetic narrative tradition of oral historians. Such tradition was used by poets in ancient Rwanda to immortalise historical and political developments. Poems in this book straddle a global perspective sand map out contours of the poet's imagination. Gloss, 138pp. UK. HAKUNA MATATA PRESS, 0953835502

2000 Paperback

Now available in paperback. A tender love story between Rwandan hotel waitress and a Canadian film maker is set against Rwanda's inexorable descent into the nightmare of genocide. Sources, 258pp, UK. CANONGATE, 1841954330