Description
| Product ID: | 9780874869842 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | From Red Earth |
| Subtitle: | A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness |
| Authors: | Author: Denise Uwimana |
| Page Count: | 220 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, African history, History, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, African history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Rwanda, c 1990 to c 2000 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Ideal book for the 25th anniversary of the genocide: it moves beyond the gore and recasts Rwanda as a place of rebirth that the world can learn from.An exceptional personal account of a strong woman who survived against all odds and used her gifts to help others.More than a memoir, this book recounts other amazing stories of healing and re A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky. If this were only a memoir of those chilling days and the long, hard road to personal healing and freedom from her past, it would be remarkable enough. But Uwimana didn’t stop there. Leaving a secure job in business, she devoted the rest of her life to restoring her country by empowering other genocide widows to band together, tell their stories, find healing, and rebuild their lives. The stories she has uncovered through her work and recounted here illustrate the complex and unfinished work of truth-telling, recovery, and reconciliation that may be Rwanda’s lasting legacy. Rising above their nation’s past, Rwanda’s genocide survivors are teaching the world the secret to healing the wound of war and ethnic conflict. Includes 16 pages of color photographs. |
| Imprint Name: | Plough Publishing House |
| Publisher Name: | Plough Publishing House |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-04-25 |