Scholastique Mukasonga
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Jacaranda, Now in English: A Novel That Knows Our Silence
Few novels capture what we survivors bury deep within ourselves, or how our silence shapes our spouses and children, as closely as Gaël Faye’s Jacaranda. Now…
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Why Scholastique Mukasonga Is My Favorite Rwandan Writer
Of all the Rwandan writers alive today, Scholastique Mukasonga is perhaps my favorite. Reading Mukasonga transports me back to my mother’s world – to women lovingly…
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‘The Barefoot Woman’ Keeps a Mother’s Memory Alive
I read many books about the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi and this is definitely another must-read book. Originally published in French as La femme aux…