If you’re looking for a super intense thriller, watch Hotel Mumbai (Prime, Youtube).
This Indian-Australian-American co-production is based on the 2008 Mumbai attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India.
The attacks killed 167 people and at least 31 in the hotel, which was under siege for 60 hours due to a lack of police resources in the area.
I was shocked that I had never heard of these attacks before.
📙 Kibogo (Rwanda)
Scholastique Mukasonga is a fantastic Rwandan author (many of her novels rate higher than 4/5 on Goodreads) who wrote several books about the devastating effects of the country’s genocide.
She chose a different theme in Kibogo. This short, great read shows the grand tradition of oral storytelling in Africa and how these stories change over time through people, events, and colonialism.