02634oam 22004454a 450 991016034430332120240912151929.09780253024411 (electronic book)(CKB)3710000001022157(MiAaPQ)EBC4787585(EXLCZ)99371000000102215720160425d2016 my 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontent.rdamedia.rdacarrier.Harvest of skulls /Abdourahman A. Waberi ; translated by Dominic ThomasBloomington, Indiana ;Indianapolis, [Indiana] :Indiana University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (xxi, 54 pages.)Global African voices.0-85742-238-3 0-253-02432-3 Preface: Postgenocide Rwanda -- Terminus -- The cavalcade -- And the dogs feasted -- No, Kigali is not sad -- Return to Kigali -- Bujumbura Beach -- Afterword.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 publisherGlobal African voices.Hutu (African people)RwandaTutsi (African people)Crimes againstRwandaGenocideRwandaRwandaEthnic relationsHutu (African people)Tutsi (African people)Crimes againstGenocideWaberi Abdourahman A.1965-1244300Thomas Dominic Richard DavidBOOK9910160344303321Harvest of Skulls2886571UNINA