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“𝐈 𝐀𝐦 𝐌𝐲 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫” is a documentary film by Immaculée Mukankubito about the life and legacy of her father.

"𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 ... 𝑊𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚 … 𝑀𝑢𝑛𝑦𝑎𝑔𝑎 ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙”

𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐮𝐣𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐨 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏).

𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐭: Immaculée Mukankubito

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𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 (𝐈𝐧𝐳𝐮) 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚 (𝐆𝐨𝐝) 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐴𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑎 𝑀𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖 𝑜𝑛 𝐼𝑁𝑍𝑈 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑚, 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐭𝐬𝐮.

According to Mutoni In traditional Rwandan beliefs “𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘: 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑓 𝑖𝑛 𝑰𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂, 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦. 𝐴𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎. 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒.”

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://t.co/C8XGp2nscd

Photo: Anna Atsu

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Accompanied by the gentle and haunting melodies of the 𝐼𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑎 , masterfully played by Daniel Ngarukiye, Gaël Kamilindi brings Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s poem to life in a performance that intertwines poetry, memory, and music standing as a testament to the powerful harmony between artistic expression and written narratives, where words and melodies unite to carry the echoes of the past.

𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: @GrandeLibrairie

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The Ntarama Genocide Memorial is located in the Bugesera District of Eastern Rwanda.

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In this musical and poetic performance, brought to life by French and Rwandan children during yesterday's inauguration of 𝐿'𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒, the memorial to the victims of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, newly unveiled in Paris, the children pay tribute to the victims while recounting the tragedy that unfolded across Rwanda's hills. Yet they also convey a message of hope, symbolically carried in traditional Rwandan baskets, as they give voice to and sing 𝑁𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑧𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑒 ("Never Again").

Video (Extrait): Élysée

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Waiting for the #BiennaleTeatro2026 | #AlterNative

WEDNESDAY 10.06, 9 pm / THURSDAY 11.06, 9 pm
Arsenale – Teatro alle Tese
DORCY RUGAMBA
HEWA RWANDA, LETTER TO THE ABSENT

Find out more → https://t.co/q4tVvkdLV3
🎟 → https://t.co/Sng3Ft73BH

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“Cette œuvre, nous la devons à Grada Kilomba. Ces archives, c'est leur nom, ont quelque chose du 'Calme bloc ici-bas chu d'un désastre obscur', pour évoquer Mallarmé. Ce désastre, c'est celui du génocide, où les Tutsis furent massacrés pour ce qu'ils étaient.

Ce désastre est formé des appels à la haine, des nuits de massacre ininterrompues, des corps amoncelés sous la besogne des bourreaux. Le désastre, c'est celui de l'absence, de la nuit perpétuelle de l'anéantissement, de l'épouvante au cœur des survivants.

Cette œuvre incarne cette puissance du désastre, où se figent la haine et l'esprit de mort. Cette œuvre relève aussi d'un mouvement inverse, celui de la mémoire à travers les mots inscrits en français, en anglais, en kinyarwanda, en swahili.

Ces blocs sombres ne sont pas seulement un mausolée, mais un livre ouvert, et qui, comme les livres, reste et traverse le temps par-delà l'aube et le crépuscule.”

𝐏𝐫𝐞́𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐧: 𝐴̀ 𝑙’𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑒 𝑙’𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑢 𝑚𝑒́𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑥 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑢 𝑔𝑒́𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑒́𝑡𝑟𝑒́ 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑇𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖.

Vous pouvez lire le discours intégral ici : https://t.co/548Svd84L7

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“My family and others become refugees in a neighbouring country. I grew up in a refugee camp for over twenty years. So it happened in the 1960s, then it happened in 1994. Of course, what happened in 1994 has no comparison. I was talking about the story of the cycle that took place.

The events of the Genocide against the Tutsi are within living memory. And so the work of memory necessarily begins with the word of survivors. Survivors are living memorials, not only by virtue of the visible scars of the body, but also the indelible wounds of the spirit, which they transmit to us through their testimony.”

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐊𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞: 𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 1994 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖 𝑖𝑛 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎, 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠, 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 2 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒 2026.

You can read the full speech here: https://t.co/1db1Kultjo

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L’auteure franco-rwandaise publie un recueil de nouvelles alternant nostalgie et dystopie. L’occasion de voyager en Afrique de 1960 à… 2070.

➡️ https://t.co/oYNxJU3FDz

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Gaël Faye ne prévoyait pas de replonger dans l’histoire du Rwanda. Pourtant, huit ans après "Petit Pays", il revient avec un roman qui explore la reconstruction d’une société après l'indicible du génocide.
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