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Rusesabagina’s jailing and why it was bound to happen

Sometime in May 2008, I was in a team of East African journalists that flew to Kigali to attend a book launch. The launch took place at the Hotel des Mille Collines, made popular by the movie, Hotel Rwanda, which earned American actor Don Cheadle, an Oscar nomination. In the movie, Cheadle portrayed Paul Rusesabagina […]

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Hotel Rwanda: A work of fiction?

The Movie Hotel Rwanda might have done a lot to sensitise the world on the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but not many people in Rwanda are happy about it. So much such that there is nothing in or around Hotel des Mille Collines that says that this is actually the hotel that was famously depicted in […]