So this was a book that wanted a review because it sounded very interesting. But not only that, it had some very real issues that I feel like we can learn from in our current history of what's going on right now around the world.
Something that is absolutely wonderful about this book is that you can skip from country to country in terms of what you want to learn about. So I'm actually skipping straight to Rwanda and the genocide. This is because I have a little bit of knowledge of this because I watched and reviewed a movie called Mama Rwanda: Bright Inspiration Out of the Darkness of War on the Rwandan genocide which was a beautiful film by a friend of mine here in DC, Mrs Laura Waters Hinson. She talked about and showed the women telling their own stories through translators, how women were really the backbone of Rwanda coming back and how these mums could have lost everything but they looked up and they did what they needed to do for their families and their community.
The great thing is because of this film Mama Rwanda, I had some knowledge of what the author was talking about that otherwise, the notations in that chapter would have been dense for me to read. It was definitely hard core and sad in nature so I had to really find time to sit and read something like this. It took time to digest it after reading it. But it was very enlightening and important!
This is an absolutely great read, in my little opinion, and especially for those who love history, psychology, world politics, anthropology, International Relations, or anything of the sort that is related.
I really do think that everyone who has experienced history at all, which is everyone, should read books like this because it helps to shape how we view the world and how we view our problems. It shows that even smarter the biggest atrocities in the world we can come out of it bigger and brighter.
And talking about some of the worst atrocities in the world for Rwanda and their children have experienced so much it's not even funny! 99.9 percent of them according to the UN had witnessed some of the violent brutality that war has brought them in the mid-nineties. Most of them had lost a family member.
Of course, this book covers a lot of different countries as well and it does so in a very factual way that enlightens the reader by ten folds.
When we are talking about raising world citizens, which is not only a "nice" thing, it is a necessary thing in the world we live in, we need to think about making this book a mandatory read in world history class in high school.
The only thing I would complain about with this book is that it was not hardcover!
* I received this book in exchange for my honest opinion by Blogging for Books. You can find my many other reviews here *
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