The Ethiopian-born American novelist Dinaw Mengestu, whose second novel, How To Read the Air, was published at the turn of the year, has contributed a piece to the latest issue of Granta. “They Always Come in the Night” describes a journey Mengestu made into eastern Congo on the trail of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu militia comprising perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. I spoke to Mengestu last week on the phone from his home in Paris.
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