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Commemorating genocide in Rwanda
, 2021 Rwanda is largely known to the outside world for the 1994 genocide, during which Hutu Power extremists murdered between 500,000 and one million civilians, most of whom were members of the nation’s Tutsi minority population. The military victory of the predominantly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) ended the genocide, after which the RPF invested in ...
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Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2015 Before a recent visit to Rwanda, all that the country held for me, as with most people, was the spectre of genocide, war, poverty and starving children. My brief visit to the city of Kigali challenged my widely held assumptions about the country.
Vishanthie Sewpaul
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The history syllabus in post-genocide Rwanda: Implications for teacher education
Cogent Education, 2018 This case study examined the questions: How are relations between Hutus and Tutsis portrayed in recent History syllabi in post-genocide Rwanda, and how may the narrative about these relations affect efforts towards educating for peace?
Paul Thomas +1 more
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In Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage, Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory. Drawing from oral histories and a visual archive of memory work after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, she explores the human rights and government priorities that preserved killing sites and victims’ remains for ...
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‘Regardez la vie reprendre’: Futurity in Véronique Tadjo’s L’Ombre d’Imana / The Shadow of Imana
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017 In this essay, I review a series of binaries that are examined by Véronique Tadjo’s recent narrative about Rwanda and its 1994 genocide, L’Ombre d’Imana (Engl. trans. The Shadow of Imana, 2002), and doubly blurred. These binaries (inside/out, here/there,
Russell West-Pavlov
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2018 INTRODUCTION: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2015 are the eight international development goals adopted by the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000 to which Rwanda is signatory.
Médard Nyandekwe +2 more
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Journal of Ethics in Higher EducationThis paper explores the role of restorative justice in post-genocide reconciliation in Rwanda, focusing on its ethical implications and impact on community healing.
Jonas Musengimana
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African Media Portrayals of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi
International Journal of CommunicationMuch has been written about the media coverage of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. However, with few exceptions, much of this work has often focused on how the journalism fields from the global North framed the genocide, with little work on how ...
Brooke Chambers, j. Siguru Wahutu
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Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda [PDF]
, 2017 This book examines the mobilization, role, and trajectory of women rescuers and perpetrators during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. While much has been written about the victimization of women during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, very little has been said about women who rescued targeted victims or perpetrated crimes against humanity.
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Shadows of life, death and survival in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017 Various writers and survivors have offered literary responses to the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. In 1998, a group of African intellectuals, mostly non-Rwandans, of whom two were female authors, participated in a collective writing project, Rwanda ...
Anna-Marie de Beer, Elisabeth Snyman
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