Kenya: Bringing Former Killers And Victims Face to Face

opinion

Nairobi — The other day, I thought it worthwhile to revisit American journalist Philip Gourevitch's classic book on the Rwanda genocide, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. With what is happening in our collective lives, it felt like as good a time as any to seek clarity, if not from a direct witness, at least from somebody who got up close to that monstrous event and wrote about it.

For sure, the events in our country have been a far cry from what happened in Rwanda. I think it is a mistake to bandy the word genocide about, something I am reluctant to do whether we are talking of Darfur or Kenya.

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