Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

Michela Wrong (author) in interview with Ros Russell

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

Michela Wrong (author) in interview with Ros Russell.

A new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, Do Not Disturb explores the controversial career of Paul Kagame and the legacy of the Rwandan genocide.

We think we know the story of Africa’s Great Lakes. Following the Rwandan
genocide, an idealistic group of young rebels overthrew the brutal regime in Kigali, ushering in an era of peace and stability that made Rwanda the donor darling of the West, winning comparisons with Switzerland and Singapore. But the truth was considerably more sinister.
Vividly sourcing her story with direct testimony from key participants, Wrong uses the story of the murder of Patrick Karegeya, once Rwanda’s head of external intelligence and a quicksilver operator of supple charm, to paint the portrait of a modern African dictatorship created in the chilling likeness of Paul Kagame, the president who sanctioned his former friend’s assassination.

It is an unflinching portrait of a regime dependent on violence, intimidation and surveillance. It will change the way you understand the story of the region and challenge the world’s often misguided support for President Paul Kagame.

MICHELA WRONG :
Michela Wrong is a distinguished international journalist, and has worked as a foreign correspondent covering events across the African continent for Reuters, BBC and the Financial Times. In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, her first book, won the PEN James Sterne Prize for non-fiction and in 2010, she won the James Cameron prize for journalism “that combined moral vision and professional integrity”.

You can listen to Michela discuss her book on R4 Start the Week 29/3/21 :

And you can buy signed copies at Primrose Hill Books (where else?) :
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad – Michela Wrong – Primrose Hill Books

ROS RUSSELL
Rosalind Russell is a journalist and editor with two decades of international experience. She has been a foreign correspondent for Reuters and The Independent in East Africa, the Middle East and Asia, including covering the fall of Kabul in the Afghan war and the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the anti-American insurgency. During nearly three years in Myanmar, Ros reported undercover under a pseudonym on the Saffron Revolution, elections and the release from house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi.

In addition to news reporting, Rosalind has written for Marie Claire magazine, and her first book, Burma’s Spring, was described by Asian Affairs as “reportage at its best” and reached number one in the UK Kindle non-fiction bestseller list. She lives in Tufnell Park and has just started work on a year-long project for the Evening Standard to report on the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in the developing world.

Her latest book is ‘The End of Where We Begin: A Refugee Story’ (Impress Books), a gripping and intimate true-life account of three young South Sudanese refugees whose promising lives are brutally interrupted by war. It documents their inspiring and heart-breaking battle to keep moving on through extremes that would break most people. An examination of the bonds of community and resilience in adversity, it is a book that holds a powerful message for our troubled times.

‘A beautiful, moving and important book about survival and the power of the human spirit’ SIMON REEVE
‘A powerful and authentic account’ LUKA BIONG DENG KUOL, author of The Struggle for South Sudan
‘A harrowing, intimate examination of civil war’s toll’ KIRKUS REVIEWS

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Last Updated on 10th May 2021 by Mick Hudspeth