Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey

Fergal Keane 1995

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
war journalism genocide Rwanda Africa

Our Take

Keane drove into Rwanda during the killing and wrote what he saw with the precision of a man committing testimony to paper before the nightmares could blur it. His BBC dispatches won awards; this book is what the awards did not fully contain — the grief of the correspondent, the smell of the churches where the bodies still lay, the children. Always the children. A small book that weighs everything.

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