Revisiting Rwanda’s catastrophe, thirty years on.

An Open Forum, led by a panel of guest speakers. Chaired by the Reverend Canon Sarah Hills, Vicar of Lindisfarne and former Director of the Coventry Cathedral Centre for Reconciliation, the team is made up of…

Professor Gilbert Achcar is Professor at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of many books, including The Clash of Barbarisms (2002, 2006) and The Arabs and the Holocaust (2010). His latest book is The New Cold War: The United States, Russia and China, from Kosovo to Ukraine (2023).

Dr Mark Levene  is Emeritus Fellow in the History Department, University of Southampton but also a long-time peace and environmental campaigner. He writes especially on genocide and the biospheric crisis now all around us. Recent work includes the two-volume The Crisis of Genocide: The European Rimlands, 1912–1953 (2013) which won the Institute for the Studyof Genocide 2015 Lemkin award, and lead-editorship of History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change, and the Possibility of Closure (2010).

Veronique Tadjo is a Franco Ivorian author and artist. She is also Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and 2024 Weidenfeld Professor at St Anne’s College, Oxford.  Her book, The Shadow of Imana: Travels to the Heart of Rwanda (2002) was translated into several languages. In the Company of Men (2021) was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction in 2022. She shares her time between London, Paris and Abidjan.

Michela Wrong Michela Wrong has spent nearly three decades writing about Africa, first as a Reuters correspondent based in Cote d’Ivoire and former Zaire, and then as the Financial Times Africa correspondent, based in Kenya. Previous books include “In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz”, the story of Mobutu Sese Seko, “I didn’t do it for you”, focussing on Eritrea, “It’s Our Turn to Eat”, an examination of Kenyan corruption, and “Borderlines”, a novel set in the Horn of Africa. Her latest book, “Do Not Disturb” is a critical assessment of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and President Paul Kagame.