Seven Stories of Rwandan Reconciliation
Stephanie Wheatley Wednesday, 9 June 2010
In the September issue of The New Republic, historian Christine Stansell described Rwanda as "a tiny African country with no book publishers, few writers, and a thin literary tradition [that] has difficulty in keeping the story going." Indeed, most of the popular literature about the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and its aftermath was written at least a decade ago. Some political scholarship continues (much of it francophone), but for most people Rwanda's genocide is a story with a beginning, middle, and end: a closed book. Under the leadership of Paul Kagame and an influx of international development funding, Rwanda has been reborn, a phoenix rising from the ashes of violence.
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