A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous tale, learn about Kagame’s early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and the United States, the way he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized ambitions for Rwanda.
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Book details
- Author
- Stephen Kinzer
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 349
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › Africa › South
- Topics
- Paul Kagame · Rwandan genocide · African politics · political biography · rebellion and civil war · post-colonial Africa · economic development
- ISBN-13
- 9780470120156
About the author
STEPHEN KINZER is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has reported from more than fifty countries on five continents. His recent books include Poisoner in Chief, The True Flag and The Brothers.
Kinzer served as the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey, working for the paper from 1983 to 2005. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a world affairs column for the Boston Globe.
Stephen lives in Boston.