Harvest of skulls / Abdourahman A. Waberi ; translated by Dominic Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waberi, Abdourahman A., 1965- author.

Contributor:

Thomas, Dominic Richard David, contributor.

Series:

Global African voices.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hutu (African people)--Rwanda.

Hutu (African people).

Tutsi (African people)--Crimes against--Rwanda.

Tutsi (African people).

Genocide--Rwanda.

Genocide.

Rwanda--Ethnic relations.

Rwanda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 54 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In 1994, the Akazu, Rwandan's political elite, planned the genocidal mass slaughter of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi and Hutu who lived in the country. Given the failure of the international community to acknowledge the genocide, in 1998, ten African authors visited Rwanda in a writing initiative that was an attempt to make partial amends. Abdourahman A. Waberi claims, "Language remains inadequate in accounting for the world and all its turpitudes, words can never be more than unstable crutches, staggering along . . . And yet, if we want to hold on to a glimmer of hope in the world, the only miraculous weapons we have at our disposal are these same clumsy supports." Shaped by the author's own experiences in Rwanda and by the stories shared by survivors, Harvest of Skulls stands twenty years after the genocide as an indisputable resource for discussions on testimony and witnessing, the complex relationship between victims and perpetrators, the power of the moral imagination, and how survivors can rebuild a society haunted by the ghost of its history.-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Preface: Postgenocide Rwanda

Terminus

The cavalcade

And the dogs feasted

No, Kigali is not sad

Return to Kigali

Bujumbura Beach

Afterword.

ISBN:

9780253024411 (electronic book)