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Another story of the historic civil resistance in the hills of Bisesero. #HistoryWithPeople #Film #GenocideAgainstTutsi #CulturalMemory #DigitalMemory #DigitalMuseum

A new article 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑔𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑖 𝐾𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑗𝑢, by Alice Urusaro Uwagaga Karekezi, Nicki Hitchcott and John Duncan McInally “Focusing on the life of Kagaju, a Rwandan mother whose two sons were taken without her consent and adopted by a white Belgian family, this article brings to light the overlooked experiences of Rwandan mothers of colonial Métis whose mixed-‘race’ children were forcibly removed under Belgian colonial rule and who remain largely absent from both public memory and feminist scholarship. In this article, the term ‘Métis’ refers to children born to African mothers and European (predominantly Belgian) fathers during the colonial period.” Read more here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… 𝐎𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨: 𝐴 𝑙’𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 « 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎̂𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠 » 𝑑𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑣𝑒, 𝑎𝑢 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎, 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑎 𝑝𝑒́𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑒. 𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒́𝑒𝑠 1959. 𝐶𝑂𝐿𝐿𝐸𝐶𝑇𝐼𝑂𝑁 𝑃𝑅𝐼𝑉𝐸́𝐸 𝐷𝐸 𝐹𝑅𝐴𝑁𝐶̧𝑂𝐼𝑆 𝐷’𝐴𝐷𝐸𝑆𝐾𝑌 (Le Monde, 2022) #History #Heritage #Historiography #HistoryWithPeople #Save #Rwanda #Burundi #DRC #Belgium #DigitalMuseum

Impera z’umwaka ziregereje! Mu mpano uteganya guha abana bawe, inshuti n’umuryango, ntuzibagirwe n’𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐨. Ariko twese twitabira #GusomaChallenge! Soma. Sangiza abandi. 📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 As the year draws to a close, don’t forget to include a 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 among your gifts for your children, family, and friends. As we all Join the #GusomaChallenge! Read. Share. #GusomaChallenge #CulturalMemory #DigitalMuseum

𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒: 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎: 𝑒́𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑟 𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑒́𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑟𝑒 by Anna-Marie DeBeer deals with literary representations of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled ‘Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire’ (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African authors. This work emphasizes the Afropolitan cultural frame in which the texts were conceived and written. Instead of using Western and Eurocentric tropes, this volume looks at a so-called ‘minority trauma’: an African conflict situated in a collectivist society and written about by writers from African origin. This approach enables a more situated study, in which it becomes possible to draw out the local notions of ubuntu, oral testimonies, mourning traditions, healing and storytelling strategies, and the presence of the ‘invisible’. Get your copy here: amazon.com/dp/3030420922?lv=… #Literature #Storytelling #Inkuru #Ubuvanganzo #Ubusizi #GusomaChallenge #CulturalMemory #DigitalMuseum

Judence Kayitesi at NUN Kulturraum and GloW e.V. In Germany, where she was invited to share her story and discuss her book "𝐴 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠" A meaningful opportunity to connect through storytelling, and the exchange of perspectives and lived experiences. Photo: NUN Kulturraum 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒’𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒: inzozipublisher.com/ #HistoryWithPeople #CulturalMemory #DigitalMuseum

Rencontre autour de l’œuvre poétique d’Injonge Karangwa, organisée par Pépite Blues à Bruxelles, en Belgique. #Poetry #Ubusizi #Ubuvanganzo #GusomaChallenge #DigitalMuseum

“Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love.” Immaculée Ilibagiza,(𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝐿𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐾𝑖𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑜: 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎) #GusomaChallenge #Literature #Kindness #DigitalMuseum

Rwanda, da qualche parte in Africa par Lumia, Simone Read more: newitalianbooks.it/fr/intern… #Letteratura #Narrazione #MemoriaCulturale #MemoriaStorica #GenocidioControITutsi #Italiana

“Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very nice. A marvelous invention. Here we have stories, but never 'The End”. Philip Gourevitch, (𝑊𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑊𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝐵𝑒 𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝐹𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠: 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎) #CulturalMemory #Storytelling #OralHistory #NonFiction #GusomaChallenge #DigitalMemory

“𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑏’𝑢 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎”, Umuvugo wa Nyiranyamibwa Suzanne. Video: Johnson Nyakarashii #Ubusizi #Umuco #Ikibonezamvugo #Inyunguramagambo #Kinyarwanda #GusomaChallenge

In their scholarly work, Assumpta Mugiraneza and Benjamin Chemouni have extensively examined and reflected on the artistic work of 𝐒𝐮𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐲𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐛𝐰𝐚 and the role of her music in preserving Rwanda’s historical memory. Explore their work through the links below. 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 1994: 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑏𝑦𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑎 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡, research.dial.uclouvain.be/s… 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑛 𝑃𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡’𝑠 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, genocideresearchhub.org.rw/u… #CulturalMemory #HistoryWithPeople #Rwanda #Art #DigitalMuseum

𝐒𝐮𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐲𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐛𝐰𝐚 (𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟑–𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔), a Rwandan musical icon and one of the custodians of Rwanda’s historical memory through music, is gone. She will be remembered for her role in preserving Rwandan culture during her years in exile; the contribution of her songs to the artistic and cultural front during the Rwanda Patriotic Front’s Liberation War; and her immense artistic contribution to preserving and shaping oral history and the memory of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. She leaves behind a lasting legacy, a story, and a life worth celebrating as one of the most remarkable artists in Rwanda’s history. #CulturalMemory #HistoryWithPeople #Music #Art #OralHistory #DigitalMuseum