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1) Kibogo
Author
Language
English
Description
"In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity. When a rogue priest is defrocked for fusing the gospels with the martyrdom of Kibogo, a fierce clash of cults ensues. Swirling with the heady smell of wet earth and flashes of acerbic humor, Mukasonga brings to life the vital mythologies that imbue the Rwandan...
3) Rwanda
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
104 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, geography, industry, culture, and people of the small country in east-central Africa.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
RWANDA - 1994: An inter-ethnic genocide erupts on an industrial scale. What happened in Rwanda was not simply spontaneous; it was a planned genocide. Lists were made. Weapons were collected. The radio station, RTLM (Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines), spent months conditioning their audiences to believe that one sector of their population -- the Tutsi -- represented a threat. This highly-intricate film follows several characters from different...
5) 100 days
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 96 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Set in the breathtaking natural beauty of the Rwanda countryside, this first ever fiction film made about the Rwanda civil war tells a powerful story of genocide and human survival with compassion and integrity.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. It was 1994, and in 100 days more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, ran and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries searching for...
Author
Publisher
BBS PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvii, 486 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on direct testimony from key participants, a journalist investigates a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it, upending the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after the deadliest genocide of the twentieth century.
9) Munyurangabo
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Kinyarwanda
Formats
Description
After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide, and Sangwa wants to visit the home he deserted years ago. Though they plan to visit Sangwa's home for just a few hours, the boys stay for several days. From two separate tribes, their friendship is tested when Sangwa's wary parents disapprove...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A stunningly beautiful and heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis, from a man who faced the very worst of humanity and survived to advocate for refugees everywhere One night when Mondiant Dogon, a Bagogwe Tutsi born in Congo, was very young, his father's lifelong friend, a Hutu man, came to their home with a machete in his hand and warned the family they were to be killed within hours. Dogon's family fled into the bush, where they began...
11) Kennedy 35
Author
Series
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When an old friend relays shocking information about a failed mission in Senegal years earlier, veteran agent Lachlan Kite must use all his resources to protect his former partner from a criminal network with links to international terror.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This dramatic conclusion to Leakey's "Trimates" will inspire the next generation of scientists and conservationists as they meet Dian Fossey, who studied and protected her beloved gorillas from poachers and other threats until her murder in 1985.
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