Rwandan News

Iguifou is the insatiable belly, the hunger, which grips the displaced Tutsi of Nyamata in the grip of famine and leads Colomba to the luminous gates of death. In Nyamata, there is also the fear that accompanies the children to the school benches and which, far from Rwanda, still clings to the exile's steps like an evil shadow. As for Helena, she lives the tragic curse of her beauty... After the genocide, all that remains is the quest for impossible mourning, a mourning desired and refused, because it is from the dead that one must draw the strength to survive.

The serene writing of Scholastique Mukasonga, imbued with poetry and humor, tirelessly gravitates around the unspeakable, the dark star of genocide.