Broken Heart of Africa
A hunt for justice in the land of the Twa
Broken Heart of Africa is the story of an epic journey, the hunt for a Hutu mastermind of Rwanda’s genocide. Led by a handful of friends among the Twa, a minority, pygmoid people scorned by most of their countrymen, a former British soldier pursues the Butcher of Butare from the rain forest cloaking the Virunga volcanoes to the killing fields of north-eastern Zaire.
En route the novel explores the minds and lives of its troubled characters, and the people they encounter. The fact-based context raises contemporary issues, first and foremost the Twa’s predicament, and delves into the causes of atrocity far greater than that of the genocide itself. The related conflict in the former Zaire has never ceased and, as an epilogue explains, rebel Tutsis, Hutus and other armed groups continue to terrorise the population.
