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| Named Person: | Louise Mushikiwabo |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Louise Mushikiwabo; Jack Kramer |
| ISBN: | 0312209592 9780312209599 |
| OCLC Number: | 62326917 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xvi, 367 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | I: Countdown to apocalypse -- In-laws, outlaws, and a pratfall from grace -- Day one: the bankers are restless -- Day two: arcadia adrift -- Day three: a black mamba summons our president to its lair -- Day four: the game is up -- Day five: distant Keening -- Day six: our poor caged bird -- II: In the crèche of the great river -- Mama married the seducer -- The boulevard Bitsinkinkumi -- Alone in Africa -- Bailiff Segahembe -- Melody ranch -- Too much love drives the world insane -- Bujumbura secrets -- "That's all you need to know, you can't go" -- Reconstructing the larger crime -- III: Original sin -- Black man, white man, brigand, fool -- Muganza of the prince's own Inzirabwoba -- Mythmaker, mythmaker -- Among princely domains -- Lady Macbeth in Africa -- Rwanda at the end of her rope -- Captain Max and his renegade Batutsi -- Belgium's Eagnerian swoon -- Kabenga's war with the Belgians -- Little chief Elizabeti -- IV: Interludes with the think itself -- The door cracks -- Where the warder is despair -- The genocide group, SA -- The law must go its way -- The day itself -- A single death, a tragedy; a million, a statistic. |
| Responsibility: | Louise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer. |
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Abstract:
A first-person account of the Rwanda genocide of 1994 describes how the author, a resident of the U.S. at the time, lost most of the members of her family over the course of a week, in a memoir that also describes her family's cultural history and her witness to social relations between Bahutu and Batutsi neighbors.
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- Mushikiwabo, Louise.
- Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives.
- Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities.
- Genocide -- Rwanda.
- Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
- Hutu (African people) -- Rwanda -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Rwanda -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.