Tag: Genocide
Buchaillard gives us closure of sorts at the end of the book, an optimistic vision of Rwanda witnessed through the healing of a family, but in our current climate it makes for uneasy reading. The novel’s central message seems to be the one we always ignore: learn the lessons of the past; do not seek to erase events; do not be manipulated by false narratives. Break the silence.
My Artemis, My Ephesus
In our Turkish years, when the sun shone on history changing before our eyes, we used to scuba dive at Pamucak Bay, seaward of the ruins of Ephesus. I …
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Interview with Scholastique Mukasonga
NWR: Hello, Scholastique. Firstly, I’d like to say how pleased I am to be bringing your short story, ‘Le Deuil’ (Mourning), to English readers for the …
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Ken Saro-Wiwa
It is savage comment on today’s world that the closing weeks of Swansea’s U.K. Year of Literature should be marked by the murder of one of its patrons …
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