"For every act of barbarity in this world....

 .... there is a corresponding beautiful act of decency and courage."

 Becky Tinsley on Let's Talk Live, May 26, 2011

This is the message that Becky Tinsley tells about genocide survivors. In a recent interview with Let's Talk Live, Becky said: "I'm fed up with the image we're given of Africans as pathetic, helpless people, when in my experience in working in twelve different African countries, the opposite is true. These are resilient, resourceful, courageous people, and I think that people in our society will be inspired by reading their stories of how they get up every morning and keep on."

Becky discussed her recently published book, When the Stars Fall to Earth, stating that she wrote about the genocide in Darfur "as a novel, because I want to humanize these people. I don't want you to think about how different they are from us.  I want people to realize that Africans are ordinary people. Terrible things have happened to them. They have risen to that challenge; most of them didn't know they had the capacity to deal with this. People in our own society might identify: we're all facing challenges."

Becky also talked about Network for Africa's role in helping genocide survivors.