LEADER 02603oam 22004334a 450 001 9910160344303321 005 20240102235718.0 010 $a9780253024411 (electronic book) 035 $a(CKB)3710000001022157 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001022157 100 $a20160425d2016 my 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent. 182 $2rdamedia. 183 $2rdacarrier. 200 10$aHarvest of skulls /$fAbdourahman A. Waberi ; translated by Dominic Thomas 210 1$aBloomington, Indiana ;$aIndianapolis, [Indiana] :$cIndiana University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 54 pages.) 225 1 $aGlobal African voices. 311 1 $a0-85742-238-3 311 1 $a0-253-02432-3 327 $aPreface: Postgenocide Rwanda -- Terminus -- The cavalcade -- And the dogs feasted -- No, Kigali is not sad -- Return to Kigali -- Bujumbura Beach -- Afterword. 330 $aIn 1994, the Akazu, Rwandan's political elite, planned the genocidal mass slaughter of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi and Hutu who lived in the country. Given the failure of the international community to acknowledge the genocide, in 1998, ten African authors visited Rwanda in a writing initiative that was an attempt to make partial amends. Abdourahman A. Waberi claims, "Language remains inadequate in accounting for the world and all its turpitudes, words can never be more than unstable crutches, staggering along . . . And yet, if we want to hold on to a glimmer of hope in the world, the only miraculous weapons we have at our disposal are these same clumsy supports." Shaped by the author's own experiences in Rwanda and by the stories shared by survivors, Harvest of Skulls stands twenty years after the genocide as an indisputable resource for discussions on testimony and witnessing, the complex relationship between victims and perpetrators, the power of the moral imagination, and how survivors can rebuild a society haunted by the ghost of its history.--$cProvided by publisher 410 0$aGlobal African voices. 606 $aHutu (African people)$zRwanda 606 $aTutsi (African people)$xCrimes against$zRwanda 606 $aGenocide$zRwanda 607 $aRwanda$xEthnic relations 615 0$aHutu (African people) 615 0$aTutsi (African people)$xCrimes against 615 0$aGenocide 700 $aWaberi$b Abdourahman A.$f1965-$01244300 702 $aThomas$b Dominic Richard David 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160344303321 996 $aHarvest of Skulls$92886571 997 $aUNINA