Youre Close Friends to everyone but. You dont want to go to war. Deja good to see people move south so they can plant crops and find food. Floods and droughts Climate Change become the main driver of mass migration you can write any apocalyptic scenarios you want and probably most of them to come to. The carnifex of this starts before on d. W. This is g. W. News africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes rwanda remembers its deadliest one hundred days on sunday the country commemorates the twenty fifth anniversary of the genocide that killed nearly a Million People or hear from survivors striving to keep the peace. And african literature in focus the second african Book Festival is underway here in
berlin well meet one of the continents rising star novelists. Im christine one bill welcome to the program im glad your chin did this weekend marks twenty five years since the start of the Rwandan Genocide one of the dockets and most brutal chapters in the countrys history the catalyst for the genocide was the downing of a Plane Carrying then president juvenile. He was a hutu he was on his way back from peace talks in tanzania with tutsi rebels the very next day the massacre of a period of just one hundred days nearly one Million People most of them tutsis were killed by Hutu Militias they can install when the tutsi rebels led by a poor guy may seize the capital kigali agon they went on to become president in
two thousand and remains in power to this day. Ahead of the anniversary east africa correspondent met a genocide survivor. Well we want to. This is where our house used to be before the genocide and nothing is left of it now. Ben to top down after looting it and i guess what im saying. Everything was he was just three months old when his parents and four siblings were killed by Hutu Militias hes a survivor of the one Nine Hundred Ninety Four genocide in rwanda the fastest of the Twentieth Century during which close to a million randoms mostly to see well wiped out in just one hundred days. Eric was too young to remember his family dying but he says he will never forget the day his aunt told him what happened. As a News Reporter she carried me on her back during the genocide right up until the killing stopped she told me how horrific it was she witnessed it all the rain was pouring down on us where hard times for many days would flee from the killer in a while where fleeing we would jump over dead bodies. Eric stock Family History is one sad by many his relatives like countless Persecuted Tutsi across the country had sought refuge in a charge when they were killed and chads just like this one in yamato an estimated Fifty Thousand people died during the genocide today this side stands as one of rumbas most poignant memorials and the stabbing remind of what happened and physical evidence of crimes but should never be forgotten. Did your say you cant imagine how it feels like growing up knowing that youre all alone with no parents and new siblings while other children your age have them. Eric says
his generations identity is deeply entrenched in the trauma of One Thousand Nine Hundred one any survivors who lost their families who are still processing the past but also children of perpetrators who participated in the killings. Its very hard to find yourself all alone either because your Family Members were killed for being too see or as in my case with parents who are in prison because they were convicted of participating in the genocide. For you. We have to take on a lot of responsibility from a young age to. The genocide could cast a long dark shadow over the lives of future generations yet i believe in the power of reconciliation is offering a new chapter in rwandas history. But i want to stay youth we have
to live in a way that brings us together to keep our country moving forward. To use the future of the country. Totally but i visit you. My first guest today watched as hes father was killed and then fed to the dogs joining the ninety ninety four genocide he was seven years old at the time today he is an ambassador for peace with the n. G. O. One young world hes involved in various activities targeted at peace and forgiveness if the lights do what he had a choice may now from god welcome c d w hit by life how did you survive the genocide. I mean its embarrassing. When its genocide and dont say i reserve my of these you know about way to. Spend i spend all the time being like where ever. Being on the dead bodies and my
springs and spending nights myself in the bush it is and you know and i was made a child survey for a kid and i was lucky to to cascade and it went to you count where finally i didnt read for about four months before i was really great right keeping it were talking about twenty five years off to this this atrocity would you say why are reconciled today. Collectively yes i have made a very being. On my own worst. Towards it was the action because you have been going to religion where people are living together. Projects as insiders the living together now so collectively as romans i would say weve made a very big step. I would say that individual he we still have lots of a work to do because because of Different Reasons and these these hatriot has been
planted and so on for some long so. Long time. Too few teachers really say we are one hundred percent you can see it so collectively with. Individually because of different constances and wouldnt we still have a long walk to do ok but its the president of rwanda paul could that me is a contentious week i mean hes been accused off for example stifling the opposition and and not tolerating dissent but i must say that has been the Necessary Evil to keep the peace and wonder how do you create its got me in maintaining the peace in in the country i dont say. So much cricket because if you know a country where our people are as yours and you manage as a leader if we managed to set up a system which has brought back. In ninety two percent of g. D. P. Growth not to screw ninety four percent of people insured by america and the whole country and people are living side by side Pictures Inside of us i would say where are you seeing peace in the world. So much that its ok. To run a genocide survivor coming to us from kigali thank you. And staying on that story in paris french president emanuel kron has tossed a panel of research is to investigate his countrys role in the london Genocide Macross hosted members often association of genocide victims. I wonder has long accused of supporting the hutu militia that committed the atrocities and then helping some of the perpetrators escape now as part of the two year investigation the panel off researchers will have at say as to the states. France has previously
acknowledged its mistakes and one that has stopped short of accepting it train the militia that took part in the massacre. A Book Festival bringing together around fifty authors from all over africa is underway here in Berlin The African Festival is now in its second year and this years theme is titled transitioning from my creation more than half of the authors participating at the event all women and im delighted to be joined by one of them in studio right now ill have you know that and actually to live there is a prominent intellectual and a Creative African Feminist four days into it eighteen she published these bones will rise again a reflection on zimbabwes Military Coupe and great to have you in studio and you are now the author of two books to publish books one of them has won an award what
did it take to get to this point i took a lot and i studied accounting and i started off as a reporter with you in the news room i guess was six years ago and so a lot of work that i had to get to but its really just been pushing working within the industry. And having pushed within working on literary festivals working hard to get many scripts submitted you know we could do a whole workshop on what it takes to become an avid an author author in general actually right right and i think staying on the theme of what you struggle i mean do you find that you you have to sort of tailor your narrative and make it dilute the African Dance so that your work could appear appeal to a wider global audience it is always difficult because first of all as a writer you should know who you are writing for when you say that you read for yourself or with it is that you once you have your work accessible to a whole range of people but thats very loaded for African Writers very often it is
accessibility means fitting into a universal westernized kind of standard which doesnt apply to many white writers or european writers and for me im always interested first and foremost in black writers or black people goes with people im interested in but im always interested in the stories that i want to read first and foremost and there are challenges it has. Means that you know publishers will turn it down say we dont think this is going to saw that happen with my first book but that became a bestseller in south africa so you kind of been beginning to see in south africa a big change people termite decolonization black writers black festivals black publishes talking about the fact that writing and reading is something weve always been doing but it just hasnt been done in a way that effect that that really serves us as black readers and writers ok whats brought you to berlin is the african Book Festival now in a second here the theme this year is transitioning from migration what kind of a conversation are africans having about this that there are many conversations that africans are having about this i mean in the last couple years weve seen
a big boom and immigrant literature particular of those africans who move to the west but even the continent is also africans talking about moving within the continent the story of humanity is a story of migration and so were seeing the kinds of difficulties in what it means to be displaced at home but it also means what you know what kind of things we learn and gain from each other when we are when we are displaced so there are many different kinds of conversations may fifth ones but many of them are painful but through them i think were getting to a place where we have a greater sense of self and the world ok thats. See prominent novelist essayist and writer from zimbabwe thank you. And that is that for now from news africa you can as always catch all our stories on our website and Facebook Page now that youre thinking about what the next book is that youre going to read will leave you with some titles of african authors that you might want to check out to have a lovely weekend. To. The powerhouse turns one hundred. One hundred years of modernist architecture. One hundred years of functionalism n. P. R. Ism. Whats behind the legend. We ask the experts for. The. Thirty. What secrets lie behind these memos. Find out in an immersive experience
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