by Kristine Pearson | May 10, 2016 | Africa, African progress, By Kristine Pearson, Justice, Rwanda

World headlines fixated on one event – the culmination of the long march to democracy in South Africa and the inauguration of Nelson Mandela. As Western media seem to feature one African story at a time, another African event was a footnote: an ‘African tribal war’ in a country not many had heard of.