A compelling tale
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In response to the other review given here: Yes I agree this is an important tale in terms of a historical report of one of the many incidents describing African genocide. However, I'm shocked that, regardless of whether a person does or doesn't read autobiographies (I do by the way), you describe the book as being let down by the writing? Time and again whilst reading this thoroughly compelling story, I thought to myself "how beautifully written". As for a possible "ghost writer", further inspection of the back inside cover draws forth the name of an editor, which not only accounts in part for the "formulaic" prose (not a choice of word I'd use) but also does away with the assumption that this was written by anyone other than the named author. Moreover, not only is the style and beauty of the text very `African', but Gilbert Tuhabonye is a highly educated (graduating from the AUC with a degree in agricultural business) multi-linguist, and as such one has to believe he is therefore quite capable of writing his own memoir. Ordinarily I would give this book 4 out of 5, but to account for the imbalance of the previous reviewer's 3 stars, I'll give it a 5.
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Inspiring life but not book
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The life and hardships that Gilbert had to go through once civil war broke out in Burundi are shocking. As a personal tale relating to some of the worse bloodshed in modern times this is an important story. The book is partly let down though by its writing though. I suspect it is largely ghost written and feels a bit formulaic. Then again I do not normally ready autobiogs.
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