The Inklusion Club: June 30 book club meeting - "Inside the Hotel Rwanda"

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Our book pick of the month is Inside the Hotel Rwanda by Edouard Kayihura. Get 10% off Inside the Hotel Rwanda at Shelf Life Books, shop here.

Book summary:

In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing 100 days within the walls of the infamous hotel— Hotel des Milles Collines— during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura tells of his life in a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter.

This book is at once a memoir, a critical deconstruction of a heralded Hollywood movie alleged to be factual, and a political analysis aimed at exposing a falsely created hero using his fame to be a political force, spouting the same ethnic apartheid that caused the genocide two decades ago.

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