Rwanda means the universe: a native's memoir of blood and bloodlines
A first-person account of the Rwanda genocide of 1994 describes how the author, a resident of the U.S. at the time, lost most of the members of her family over the course of a week, in a memoir that also describes her family's cultural history and her witness to social relations between Bahutu...
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| Summary: | A first-person account of the Rwanda genocide of 1994 describes how the author, a resident of the U.S. at the time, lost most of the members of her family over the course of a week, in a memoir that also describes her family's cultural history and her witness to social relations between Bahutu and Batutsi neighbors. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 367 p., [16] p. of plates ill., map 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780312209599 0312209592 |
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| adam_text | RWANDA MEANS
THE UNIVERSE
A NATIVE S MEMOIR OF BLOOD AND BLOODLINES
LOUISE MUSHIKIWABO
AND
JACK KRAMER
ST MARTIN S PRESS amp; NEW YORK
• CONTENTS
Preface: Our Single Intent xi
PART I COUNTDOWN TO APOCALYPSE
1 In-laws, Outlaws, and a Pratfall from Grace 3
2 Day One: The Bankers Are Restless 14
3 Day Two: Arcadia Adrift 24
4 Day Three: A Black Mamba Summons Our President to Its Lair 30
5 Day Four: The Game Is Up 47
6 Day Five: Distant Keening SO
7 Day Six: Our Poor Caged Bird 54
PART II IN THE CRECHE OF THE GREAT RIVER
8 Mama Marries the Seducer 61
9 The Boulevard Bitsindinkumi 71
10 Alone in Africa 80
11 Bailiff Segahembe 84
12 Melody Ranch 94
13 Too Much Love Drives the World Insane 110
14 Bujumbura Secrets 123
15 That s All You Need to Know You Can t Go 132
16 Reconstructing the Larger Crime 144
PART III ORIGINAL SIN
17 Black Man, White Man, Brigand, Fool 159
18 Muganza of the Prince s Own Inzirabwoba 185
Viii • CONTENTS
19 Mythmaker, Mythmaker 199
20 Among Princely Domains 204
21 Lady Macbeth in Africa 208
22 Rwanda at the End of Her Rope 215
23 Captain Max and His Renegade Batutsi 229
24 Belgium s Wagnerian Swoon 249
25 Kabenga s War with the Belgians 258
26 Little Chief Elizabeti 275
PART IV INTERLUDES WITH THE THING ITSELF
27 The Door Cracks 293
28 Where the Warder Is Despair 297
29 The Genocide Group, SA 306
30 The Law Must Go Its Way 325
31 The Day Itself 333
32 A Single Death, a Tragedy; a Million, a Statistic 340
Acknowledgments 351
Glossary 353
Index 357
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RWANDA MEANS
THE UNIVERSE
A NATIVE'S MEMOIR OF BLOOD AND BLOODLINES
LOUISE MUSHIKIWABO
AND
JACK KRAMER
ST MARTIN'S PRESS amp; NEW YORK
• CONTENTS
Preface: Our Single Intent xi
PART I COUNTDOWN TO APOCALYPSE
1 In-laws, Outlaws, and a Pratfall from Grace 3
2 Day One: The Bankers Are Restless 14
3 Day Two: Arcadia Adrift 24
4 Day Three: A Black Mamba Summons Our President to Its Lair 30
5 Day Four: The Game Is Up 47
6 Day Five: Distant Keening SO
7 Day Six: Our Poor Caged Bird 54
PART II IN THE CRECHE OF THE GREAT RIVER
8 Mama Marries the Seducer 61
9 The Boulevard Bitsindinkumi 71
10 Alone in Africa 80
11 Bailiff Segahembe 84
12 Melody Ranch 94
13 Too Much Love Drives the World Insane 110
14 Bujumbura Secrets 123
15 That's All You Need to Know You Can't Go 132
16 Reconstructing the Larger Crime 144
PART III ORIGINAL SIN
17 Black Man, White Man, Brigand, Fool 159
18 Muganza of the Prince's Own Inzirabwoba 185
Viii • CONTENTS
19 Mythmaker, Mythmaker 199
20 Among Princely Domains 204
21 Lady Macbeth in Africa 208
22 Rwanda at the End of Her Rope 215
23 Captain Max and His Renegade Batutsi 229
24 Belgium's Wagnerian Swoon 249
25 Kabenga's War with the Belgians 258
26 Little Chief Elizabeti 275
PART IV INTERLUDES WITH THE THING ITSELF
27 The Door Cracks 293
28 Where the Warder Is Despair 297
29 The Genocide Group, SA 306
30 The Law Must Go Its Way 325
31 The Day Itself 333
32 A Single Death, a Tragedy; a Million, a Statistic 340
Acknowledgments 351
Glossary 353
Index 357 |
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