02/04/2014
Genocide in Rwanda was a fork in the road not just for Africa but the world
The horrific events of April 1994 continue to shape the thinking of today's policymakers and peacemakers Genocide survivors listen to an address by then UN secretary general Kofi Annan during his visit to a massacre site. Photograph: Reuters/Re 'Rwanda is our nightmare, South Africa is our dream, wrote the Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, reflecting on the events of April 1994 ? the most momentous month in Africa's post-independence history. Even as South Africans formed endless human chains to vote for Nelson Mandela as their first black president and bury racial apartheid under euphoria, hundreds of thousands of people were being murdered in a tiny east African country away from the the...
