Nicholas Shakespeare

The making of a monster: Paul Kagame’s bloodstained past

Rwanda’s President has been widely feted as ‘the man who ended the genocide’. But he may also have started it, according to Michela Wrong

‘God created me in a very strange way,’ Paul Kagame once told an obsequious interviewer. Credit: Alamy 
issue 27 March 2021
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  • Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

    Michela Wrong

    Fourth Estate, pp. 336, £20

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