Local Literature

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda ...

The Past Ahead is the story of the destinies of two people after their experiences of the genocide in Rwanda. Isaro is orphaned, exiled, and now re...

A new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature“Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world an...

In 2004, the Academy Award–nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who so...

No one really knew anymore who this so-called African princess named Nyabinghi was. Her name had washed up on the shores of Jamaica under strange c...

Nadina works as a journalist on a private television in her country. She writes a series of e-mails to her father, who passed on to the other world...

Thirteen years before the bloody 1994 genocide that swept across Rwanda and left more than a million people dead, the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ ...

It's the greatest story never told: that of a boy who met Jesus and dared to ask Him all the questions that have consumed mankind since the dawn of...

Mukasonga unsparingly resurrects the horrors of the Rwandan geocide while lyrically recording the quieter moments of daily life with her family—a m...