The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley

A story of growing up in Africa and returning as a war journalist. A story of beauty and wonderful setting with unimaginable horror and cruelty and chaos. The dangerous life of a war journalist and seeing things no one should have to see and trying to tell a world not interested and trying to be objective. Self-medicating with drink, sex, and cynicism, the author is doing a job no one should have to do but he is drawn to it and half-destroyed by it. The sections on Rwandan genocide are particularly valuable as history, I expect. A painful read.