This was really bad. Like, rough draft of a high school student's very first research paper bad. Here's a partial list of the book's problems:

•Nyankanzi doesn't properly introduce people in the text, but sends the reader to the notes at the back of the book to find out who's who.
•While he does acknowledge violence committed against Hutus, he only gives deeper exploration to violence committed *by* Hutus.
•Nyankanzi states that genocide in Africa would not have occurred without European colonization and starts to give an argument in support, but then just stops and moves on to something else.
•Argues that foreign aid is a new version of colonialism, but once again doesn't fully develop the argument. (Pity, because he did make some good points.)
•Goes well beyond the scope of the Rwanda and Burundi genocide, which really makes the book a scattered mess.
•Includes a truly bizarre chapter on what he claims are the biblical origins of genocide, in which he comes off as borderline anti-Semitic when discussing the Old Testament, and treats the New Testament as both myth and historical fact depending on what point he wants to make.
•Describes Roman soldiers tormenting Jesus as both sadistic *and* masochistic (page 111). (One or the other, dude!)
•Quotes the Song of Solomon in Latin as if that's its original language (page 119).
•Describes Thracians as a Nordic people (page 127).
•Comes up with gems like, "Many cases of homosexuality and sexual assault were recorded" (page 38). (As if the two are fucking equivalent!)

It is a poorly written, biased mess of a book that I only finished reading because I wanted to see how much worse it was going to get. ( )