Murambi

Author : Boubacar Boris Diop,Fiona Mc Laughlin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0253112060

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Murambi, The Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop,Fiona Mc Laughlin Pdf

"[W]hat is true of Rwanda is true in each of us; we all share in Africa." -- L'Harmattan "[This novel] comes closer than have many political scientists or historians to trying to understand why this small country... sank in such appalling violence." -- Radio France International In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed in what would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing sprees of the 20th century. In Murambi, The Book of Bones, Boubacar Boris Diop comes face to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the tragedy. Now, the power of Diop's acclaimed novel is available to English-speaking readers through Fiona Mc Laughlin's crisp translation. The novel recounts the story of a Rwandan history teacher, Cornelius Uvimana, who was living and working in Djibouti at the time of the massacre. He returns to Rwanda to try to comprehend the death of his family and to write a play about the events that took place there. As the novel unfolds, Cornelius begins to understand that it is only our humanity that will save us, and that as a writer, he must bear witness to the atrocities of the genocide. From the novel: "If only by the way people are walking, you can see that tension is mounting by the minute. I can feel it almost physically. Everyone is running or at least hurrying about. I meet more and more passersby who seem to be walking around in circles. There seems to be another light in their eyes. I think of the fathers who have to face the anguished eyes of their children and who can't tell them anything. For them, the country has become an immense trap in the space of just a few hours. Death is on the prowl. They can't even dream of defending themselves. Everything has been meticulously prepared for a long time: the administration, the army, and the [militia] are going to combine forces to kill, if possible, every last one of them."

Author : Boubacar Boris Diop
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 9780253347541

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Murambi by Boubacar Boris Diop Pdf

A novel about the 1994 slaughter of nearly a million Rwandans.

Author : Boubacar Boris Diop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Genocide
ISBN : OCLC:1302161463

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Murambi, the Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop Pdf

In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed in what would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing sprees of the 20th century. In Murambi, The Book of Bones, Boubacar Boris Diop comes face to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the tragedy. Here, the power of Diop's acclaimed novel is available to English-speaking readers through Fiona Mc Laughlin's crisp translation and a compelling afterword by Diop. The novel recounts the story of a Rwandan history teacher, Cornelius Uvimana, who was living and working in Djibouti at the time of the massacre. He returns to Rwanda to try to comprehend the death of his family and to write a play about the events that took place there. As the novel unfolds, Cornelius begins to understand that it is only our humanity that will save us, and that as a writer, he must bear witness to the atrocities of the genocide.

Author : Boubacar Boris Diop
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780253020567

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Kaveena by Boubacar Boris Diop Pdf

This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The dispassionate and deadpan narrator, Asante Kroma, is a former head of Secret Services and finds himself living with the corpse of the dictator, a man who once ruled his nation with an iron fist. Through a series of flashbacks and letters penned by the dictator, N'Zo Nikiema, readers discover the role of the French shadow leader, Pierre Castaneda, whose ongoing ambition to exploit the natural resources of the country knows no limits. As these powerful men use others as pawns in a violent real-life chess match, it is the murder of six-year-old Kaveena and her mother's quest for vengeance that brings about a surprise reckoning.

Author : Karen Connelly
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307375667

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The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly Pdf

Set during Burma's military dictatorship of the mid—1990s, Karen Connelly’s exquisitely written and harshly realistic debut novel is a hymn to human resilience and love. In the sealed-off world of a vast Burmese prison known as the cage, Teza languishes in solitary confinement seven years into a twenty-year sentence. Arrested in 1988 for his involvement in mass protests, he is the nation’s most celebrated songwriter whose resonant words and powerful voice pose an ongoing threat to the state. Forced to catch lizards to supplement his meager rations, Teza finds emotional and spiritual sustenance through memories and Buddhist meditation. The tiniest creatures and things–a burrowing ant, a copper-coloured spider, a fragment of newspaper within a cheroot filter–help to connect him to life beyond the prison walls. Even in isolation, Teza has a profound influence on the people around him. His integrity and humour inspire Chit Naing, the senior jailer, to find the courage to follow his conscience despite the serious risks involved, while Teza’s very existence challenges the brutal authority of the junior jailer, perversely nicknamed Handsome. Sein Yun, a gem smuggler and prison fixer, is his most steady human contact, who finds delight in taking advantage of Teza by cleverly tempting him into Handsome's web with the most dangerous contraband of all: pen and paper. Lastly, there's Little Brother, an orphan raised in the jail, imprisoned by his own deprivation. Making his home in a tiny, corrugated-metal shack, Little Brother stays alive by killing rats and selling them to the inmates. As the political prisoner and the young boy forge a cautious friendship, we learn that both are prisoners of different orders; only one of them dreams of escape and only one of them achieves it. Barely able to speak, losing the battle of the flesh but winning the battle of the spirit, Teza knows he has the power to transfigure one small life, and to send a message of hope and resistance out of the cage. Shortlisted for both the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, The Lizard Cage has received rave reviews nationally and internationally.

Author : Lifongo J. Vetinde,Jean-Blaise Samou
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781498587570

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African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism by Lifongo J. Vetinde,Jean-Blaise Samou Pdf

A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to focus exclusively and extensively on the question of humanism in African art and culture. This collection brings together scholars from different disciplines who deftly examine the deployment of various forms of artistic production such as oral and written literatures, paintings, and cartoons to articulate an Afrocentric humanist discourse. The contributors argue that the artists, in their representation of civil wars, massive corruption, poverty, abuse of human rights, and other dehumanizing features of post-independence Africa, call for a return to the traditional African vision of humanism that is relentlessly being eroded by the realities of postcolonial nationhood.

Author : James Dawes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674030275

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That the World May Know by James Dawes Pdf

What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to stop the ones that are happening right now? That the World May Know tells the powerful and moving story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity in our day.

Author : Helmut K Anheier
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857023902

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Cultures and Globalization by Helmut K Anheier Pdf

Bringing together a truly global range of scholars, this volume explores heritage, memory, and identity through a diverse set of subjects, including heritage sites, practices of memorialization, museums, sites of contestation, and human rights.

Author : Nancy Loucks,Sally Smith Holt,Joanna R. Adler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135986148

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Why We Kill by Nancy Loucks,Sally Smith Holt,Joanna R. Adler Pdf

Infanticide, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings and genocide; all involve taking of life. Put most simply, all involve killing one or more other people. Yet cultural context influences heavily how one perceives all of these, and indeed, some readers of this paragraph may already have thought: 'But surely that doesn't belong with those others, that's not really killing.' Why We Kill examines violence in many of its manifestations, exploring how culture plays a role in people's understanding of violent action. From the first chapter, which tries to understand multiple forms of domestic homicide including infanticide, filicide, spousal homicide and honour killings, to the final chapter's bone-chilling account of the massacre at Murambi in Rwanda, this fascinating book makes compelling reading.

Author : United States. Office of Geography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Geography
ISBN : PSU:000016024878

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Rwanda by United States. Office of Geography Pdf

Author : Nicki Hitchcott
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781384824

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Rwanda Genocide Stories by Nicki Hitchcott Pdf

A critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide.

Author : Timothy Longman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107678095

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Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Timothy Longman Pdf

A critical exploration of the steps taken to promote peace, reconciliation and justice in post-genocide Rwanda.

Author : Nigel Eltringham,Pam Maclean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317754213

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Remembering Genocide by Nigel Eltringham,Pam Maclean Pdf

In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide. Whether coming to terms with atrocities committed in Namibia and Rwanda, Australia, Canada, the Punjab, Armenia, Cambodia and during the Holocaust, those seeking to remember genocide are confronted with numerous challenges. Survivors grapple with the possibility, or even the desirability, of recalling painful memories. Societies where genocide has been perpetrated find it difficult to engage with an uncomfortable historical legacy. Still, to forget genocide, as this volume edited by Nigel Eltringham and Pam Maclean shows, is not an option. To do so reinforces the vulnerability of groups whose very existence remains in jeopardy and denies them the possibility of bringing perpetrators to justice. Contributors discuss how genocide is represented in media including literature, memorial books, film and audiovisual testimony. Debates surrounding the role museums and monuments play in constructing and transmitting memory are highlighted. Finally, authors engage with controversies arising from attempts to mobilise and manipulate memory in the service of reconciliation, compensation and transitional justice.

Author : Edouard Kayihura,Kerry Zukus
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781937856731

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Inside the Hotel Rwanda by Edouard Kayihura,Kerry Zukus Pdf

In 2004, the Academy Award–nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Milles Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees don't endorse Rusesabagina's version of the events. In the wake of Hotel Rwanda's international success, Rusesabagina is one of the most well-known Rwandans and now the smiling face of the very Hutu Power groups who drove the genocide. He is accused by the Rwandan prosecutor general of being a genocide negationist and funding the terrorist group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing 100 days within the walls of that infamous hotel and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura tells of his life in a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter. Inside the Hotel Rwanda exposes Paul Rusesabagina as a profiteering, politically ambitious Hutu Power sympathizer who extorted money from those who sought refuge, threatening to send those who did not pay to the genocidaires, despite pleas from the hotel's corporate ownership to stop. Inside the Hotel Rwanda is at once a memoir, a critical deconstruction of a heralded Hollywood movie alleged to be factual, and a political analysis aimed at exposing a falsely created hero using his fame to be a political force, spouting the same ethnic apartheid that caused the genocide two decades ago.

Author : Janel Kragt Bakker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199328215

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Sister Churches by Janel Kragt Bakker Pdf

In Sister Churches Janel Bakker draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with participants in congregation-to-congregation partnerships between Western churches and churches in the global South to explore the sister church movement and in particular its effects on American churches.