A Thousand Hills
Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
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Narrated by:
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Paul Boehmer
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By:
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Stephen Kinzer
About this listen
Now, as President Kagame, he's obsessed with a single outlandish dream: to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, and to do it in the space of a single generation.
A Thousand Hills tells Kagame's tumultuous life story, including his early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and the United States, the dazzlingly original way he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized ambitions for Rwanda. It is the adventure-filled tale of a visionary who won a war, stopped a genocide, and then set out to turn his country into the star of Africa. Like Ishmael Beah's best-selling A Long Way Gone and Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, this book recounts the thrilling and uplifting tale of a man who defied the odds to lift himself and his country out of misery toward a more promising future.
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- Saurabh R.
- 28-10-16
must read
must read for everyone on the planet. even though it may be a bit biased towards kagame
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- Anonymous User
- 04-04-19
How to reconcile a failed state?
I recommend it to anyone who's seeking to be a good leader and to those who want motivations to keep them going
Paul Kigame my new hero
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- Twaambo Hamusute
- 29-05-20
Insightful
Insightful story, very different from the story most know. The author tries to balance but still comes out pro Kagame .
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- Raj
- 05-09-17
Great book..
Great read. Last couple of chapters begin to drag but still insightful and emotive listen.
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