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“Sister Deborah”: the black Messiah of Scholastique Mukasonga

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The first name his parents gave him became his surname. The first name she kept on her identity papers meant, in the Rwanda of the 1950s and 1960s, that she was baptized and could study in religious schools. Installed today in Normandy, where the green pastures frequented by disillusioned cows remind her of her native … Read more

Scholastique Mukasonga is the guest of Cultural Affairs

by Janet Freeman

We discovered his journey and his striking and poetic pen in 2006 with the publication of his first book, “Inyenzi or the Cockroaches”, in which she recounted her persecuted childhood in the 1960s among the Tutsi deportees, the struggle to preserve life in the midst of chaos, but also the massacres heralding the genocide from … Read more