Chapter Eleven, Without Forgiveness There Really Is No Future Summary and Analysis

Tutu visits Rwanda right after the genocide ended in the mid-90s as president of the All Africa Council of Churches. There are many crises in the nations of the AACC membership. When Tutu confronts these tragedies in person, he often breaks down and cry. Rwanda teaches him that racism is not the only cause of genocide. In Rwanda, it is a conflict of black against black. Tutu preaches wherever he goes that people must turn from retributive to restorative justice to heal.

Tutu is not clear about why so many who are so wounded listen to him. He thinks it is because his work in South Africa gives him credibility. People know about the TRC and listen to Tutu as an oracle as a...