The issue of genocide is indeed a very contemporary topic in Africa. However, African genocide has been studied using two stunting theoretical paradigms. The first is the tendency to use what are unquestionably Holocaust theories. This incorrectly suggests that the African experience of genocide and the Jewish experience of Holocaust can be matched. Jewish Holocaust and African genocide share certain commonalities, but to uncritically make the Holocaust paradigmatic of the African genocide can blur the specificity of the two contexts and the historical nuances that shaped each. It can also fudge an understanding of the motives of the perpetrators and the shifting nature of the identities of the victims. This is merely simplifying complex realities. The second problem created by the use of a selective approach to genocide in Africa is a theoretical one of deploying ‘historical exceptionalism’ when explaining genocidal situations. Historical exceptionalism is based on the conscious politics of non-disclosure of facts. Non-disclosure itself is a negative function of the window (or framing) theory that is based on privileging fact-finding methods. That is, choosing facts to find, or evidence to project as real, at the expense of other realities of the genocide