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Departures Podcast with Michela Wrong By Editor | Published: May 10, 2021 Near the end of this episode, host of the Departures podcast Robert Amsterdam tells his guest, “This is perhaps the best book I’ve ever read on Africa, and I’ve read a lot of books.” Such is the esteem we hold for Michela Wrong, a British journalist who has covered Africa for decades for outlets such as the BBC and the Financial Times. Her latest book, “ Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad,” tells the inside story of the authoritarian regime of President Paul Kagam...

Voices are raised against the NBA launching its new African league in Rwanda May 6, 2021 According to Field Level Media, “The NBA’s Basketball Africa League is slated to open its inaugural, 14-day season on May 16 in Kigali, Rwanda. The league will feature a dozen club teams from across Africa, with all 26 games being held at Kigali Arena in Rwanda and concluding with the title game on May 30. The BAL was initially expected to debut in March 2020 in Dakar, Senegal,” the date postponed due to the pandemic. Human rights groups are concerned that using Rwanda as a backdrop would provide a ...

President Paul Kagame’s legitimacy is built on myths, argues Michela Wrong.

Interview with Michela Wrong: The tool of power in Rwanda is fear 25 Apr 2021 ‘Kagame’s victims’: A protest against Rwanda’s president in Pretoria in 2014 after the assassination of the country’s former intelligence chief, Patrick Karegeya. His death prompted Michela Wrong (below) to write a book about the murder and the dictatorial regime. Photo: Alexander Joe/AFP It is widely believed that after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which claimed nearly one million lives, Paul Kagame led a group of rebels known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) — based in Uganda — to oust a murderous ...

Is the Wrong book reviving Uganda-Rwanda rivalry? Saturday April 24 2021 Summary  The Rwandan media can be brutal. One outlet published a story accusing me of having committed amarorerwa (genocide?) in Rwanda and that I had been deported from Rwanda because of ruswa (corruption). Advertisement Ms Michela Wrong (what a name?) wrote a book titled ‘Do Not Disturb’. It is on the death of Col Patrick Karegeya in a South African hotel room. Col Karegeya was former director general of Rwanda’s external intelligence agency. Ms Wrong is a British national. Col Karegeya’s death or assassinatio...