| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
I: Countdown to apocalypse -- In-laws, outlaws, and a pratfall from grace -- Day one: the bankers are restless -- Day two: arcadia adrift -- Day three: a black mamba summons our president to its lair -- Day four: the game is up -- Day five: distant Keening -- Day six: our poor caged bird -- II: In the crèche of the great river -- Mama married the seducer -- The boulevard Bitsinkinkumi -- Alone in Africa -- Bailiff Segahembe -- Melody ranch -- Too much love drives the world insane -- Bujumbura secrets -- "That's all you need to know, you can't go" -- Reconstructing the larger crime -- III: Original sin -- Black man, white man, brigand, fool -- Muganza of the prince's own Inzirabwoba -- Mythmaker, mythmaker -- Among princely domains -- Lady Macbeth in Africa -- Rwanda at the end of her rope -- Captain Max and his renegade Batutsi -- Belgium's Eagnerian swoon -- Kabenga's war with the Belgians -- Little chief Elizabeti -- IV: Interludes with the think itself -- The door cracks -- Where the warder is despair -- The genocide group, SA -- The law must go its way -- The day itself -- A single death, a tragedy; a million, a statistic. |
| Subject |
Mushikiwabo, Louise.
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Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives.
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Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities.
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Genocide -- Rwanda.
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Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
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Hutu (African people) -- Rwanda -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Rwanda -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Kramer, Jack, 1940-
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| ISBN |
0312209592 |
| Standard No. |
9780312209599 |
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