I Saw the Devil, I Saw God Paperback - 2014

Charles Mwumvaneza was a businessman living in Rwanda's capital city of Kigali. When the genocide of 1994 came to Rwanda, Charles and his wife Jeanne were forced out of their home and hunted for their lives. Narrowly surviving after weeks of hunger and danger, Charles lived to see the end of Rwanda's civil war, only to be falsely accused of working with the very murderers who had hunted him. Because of the colonialist division of Rwandans into artificial "tribes" named the Hutu and Tutsi, Charles, despite his hatred of the very concept, found himself rejected and persecuted on all sides, bearing characteristics of both groups. A victim of the partition of Rwanda into so-called ethnic groups, he was imprisoned, for years, without a trial. Charles was eventually released. After years of trials, he made his way to safety in the United States. Today, Charles lives in Southern California and is the founder of the nonprofit organization called Wakesho, an effort to improve the lives of youth in East Africa. "As detail after detail of Mr. Mwumvaneza's story was verified, I became all the more excited about working to shape Charles' experiences into book form. It isn't merely the story about one man, but a love letter to the unsung heroes of one of history's most shameful chapters. Any person, from any walk of life, would be powerfully impacted by the secrets revealed through Charles Mwumvaneza's witness, and his message to the current generation is not only for Africa, but for all of us.