THE STATISTICS CITED in Road Trip Rwanda—from reports by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, Transparency International, the World Bank, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Gallup International, the World Economic Forum, and Democracy Watch—as well as the articles quoted from Economist magazine, The Globe and Mail, and The New York Times are all readily available online.
For the historical and cultural background on Rwanda, and the genocide, I relied on the following sources:
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Anyidoho, Henry Kwami. Guns Over Kigali: The Rwandese Civil War—1994 (A Personal Account). Fountain, 1997.
Berkeley, Bill. The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa. Basic, 2001.
Berry, Carol Pott, and John A. Berry, eds. Genocide in Rwanda: A Collective Memory. Howard University Press, 1999.
Briggs, Philip. Rwanda: Bradt Guide, 5th Edition. Bradt, 2012.
Carr, Rosamond Halsey, with Ann Howard Halsey. Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda. Plume, 2000.
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Crisafulli, Patricia, and Andrea Redmond. Rwanda, Inc.: How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Dallaire, Roméo, with Brent Beardsley. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. Vintage, 2004.
Des Forges, Alison. Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda. Human Rights Watch, 1999.
Dugard, Martin. Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone. Broadway, 2003.
Feil, Scott R. Preventing Genocide: How the Early Use of Force Might Have Succeeded in Rwanda. Carnegie Commission, 1998.
Fossey, Dian. Gorillas in the Mist. Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
French, Howard W. China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa. Knopf, 2014.
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Grant, Richard. Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa. Free Press, 2011.
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____. The Strategy of Antelopes: Rwanda After the Genocide. Serpent’s Tail, 2009.
____. A Time for Machetes: The Rwandan Genocide: The Killers Speak. Serpent’s Tail, 2005.
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McCullum, Hugh. The Angels Have Left Us: The Rwandan Tragedy and the Churches. WCC, 1995.
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____. A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide, new updated edition. Zed Books, 2009.
Peterson, Scott. Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda. Routledge, 2000.
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