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From red earth : a Rwandan story of healing and forgiveness
- Title
- From red earth : a Rwandan story of healing and forgiveness / Denise Uwimana.
- Author
- Uwimana, Denise
- Publication
- Walden, New York : Plough Publishing House, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- 205 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map; 22 cm
- Summary
- A hundred days of carnage, twenty-five years of rebirth--Provided by publisher.
- In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky. If this were only a memoir of those chilling days and the long, hard road to personal healing and freedom from her past, it would be remarkable enough. But Uwimana didn't stop there. Leaving a secure job in business, she devoted the rest of her life to restoring her country by empowering other genocide widows to band together, tell their stories, find healing, and rebuild their lives. The stories she has uncovered through her work and recounted here illustrate the complex and unfinished work of truth-telling, recovery, and reconciliation that may be Rwanda's lasting legacy. Rising above their nation's past, Rwanda's genocide survivors are teaching the world the secret to healing the wound of war and ethnic conflict. Includes 16 pages of color photographs.
- Subject
- Uwimana, Denise
- 1900-1999
- Genocide survivors > Rwanda
- Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against > History > Rwanda > 20th century
- Reconciliation > Social aspects > Rwanda
- Reconciliation > Political aspects > Rwanda
- Atrocities
- Ethnic relations
- Genocide survivors
- Reconciliation > Political aspects
- Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against
- Rwanda > History > Atrocities. > Civil War, 1994
- Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Personal narratives
- Rwanda > Ethnic relations
- Rwanda
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Personal narratives.
- Contents
- Plane crash -- Roots -- Refugee childhood -- Wakening -- Charles -- Trouble -- Tightening net -- April 16 -- Haven -- Alone -- Survivors -- Peace with Bugarama -- Mukoma -- The sisterhood -- Beata -- A time to heal -- Antoine -- Wellspring -- Cancilde and Emamanuel.
- Call Number
- Sc D 21-866
- ISBN
- 9780874869842
- 0874869846
- LCCN
- 2018056127
- OCLC
- 1050567105
- Author
- Uwimana, Denise, author.
- Title
- From red earth : a Rwandan story of healing and forgiveness / Denise Uwimana.
- Publisher
- Walden, New York : Plough Publishing House, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 21-866