November 30, 2016
With simple elegance, Scholastique Mukasonga etches a dedication at the beginning of Cockroaches that ensures the subjects of her memoir,...
blog
October 16, 2015
In a matter of days or even hours, Rwandan Professor Leopold Munyakazi will be placed on a plane from a detention facility in Baltimore and...
Conversations
June 5, 2015
Twenty-one years after the Rwandan genocide, as wounds are reexamined for traces of healing, new miseries begin to take shape across the...
blog
September 13, 2014
In April of 2014, artist and sculptor Wangechi Mutu started a photography project on Instagram in memory of the 20th anniversary of the...
Art
May 16, 2014
In August 1994, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar traveled to Rwanda in the aftermath of the country’s infamous genocide. He documented scenes of...
Opinion
April 29, 2014
This article appears in a collection of essays entitled, Confronting Genocide: Dehumanization, Denial and Strategies for Prevention" edited...
Reportage
April 21, 2014
“Genocide calls for a radical, immediate response. The only response to date has been first aid. But genocide cannot be stopped by doctors...
Conversations
October 17, 2012
Senegal’s most celebrated writer, Boubacar Boris Diop and award-winning Rwandan writer, Scholastique Mukasonga agreed to meet online for an...
Opinion
June 12, 2012
GOMA, June 9: Goma has changed. What just a few years ago was a tense city under frequent rumors of impending invasion by armed groups is...