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Transmitting Memories in Rwanda
From a Survivor Parent to the Next Generation
Series: - Postcolonial Lives, Volume: 2
Known for its breathtaking scenery, the central-east African country of Rwanda lived through one of the worst episodes of violence of the late 20th century, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, in which over a million people were brutally murdered in 100 days.This book recounts the personal story of Claver Irakoze who survived the genocide as an eleven-year-old child and, like other Rwandans of his generation, is now grappling with the heavy responsibility of raising children in the post-genocide context.Tracing the various stages of Irakoze’s life experiences, each chapter teases out issues surrounding childhood, parenting and the transmission of memories between generations. The final chapter draws on Irakoze’s personal and professional experience to provide some reflections on managing memories of genocide within the family.
Claver Irakoze is the author of the children’s book
That Child Is Me (Imagine We, 2019), and producer of the song and music video
“Umurage w’amateka” (
The Legacy of History). Irakoze worked for the Aegis Trust, developing the Genocide Archive of Rwanda (www.genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw) and Peace and Values Education Digital Learning Platform (www.ubumuntu.rw).
Caroline Williamson Sinalo is Lecturer in World Languages at University College Cork and the author of Rwanda after Genocide: Gender, Identity and Posttraumatic Growth (2018). She has published widely on the lives and experiences of survivors of violence.
Caroline Williamson Sinalo is Lecturer in World Languages at University College Cork and the author of Rwanda after Genocide: Gender, Identity and Posttraumatic Growth (2018). She has published widely on the lives and experiences of survivors of violence.
Foreword
Acknowledgement
Maps
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Background to the Collaboration
2 A Project Founded on Empirical Research
3 Functions of Testimony
4 Testimony as an Educational Tool
5 The Challenges of Testimony
6 Collaboration and Ethics
7 Publishers and the Readership
8 Moving Forward
Prologue
1 Life Today
2 To Burundi and Back Again
3 School and the Discovery of a New World
4 Deterioration of Community Life
5 The Genocide against the Tutsi
6 The Aftermath
7 Growing up an Orphan
8 Working on a New Identity
9 Getting Married and Becoming a Parent
10 Raising Rwanda’s Next Generation
1 Principle 1: Parenting Should Include the Full Participation of All Family Members
2 Principle 2: Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First
3 Principle 3: We Should Lay Down Strong Foundations
4 Principle 4: We Must Trust Our Children with the Truth
5 Principle 5: It Takes a Village to Raise a Child
Bibliograhie
Index
Acknowledgement
Maps
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Background to the Collaboration
2 A Project Founded on Empirical Research
3 Functions of Testimony
4 Testimony as an Educational Tool
5 The Challenges of Testimony
6 Collaboration and Ethics
7 Publishers and the Readership
8 Moving Forward
Prologue
1 Life Today
2 To Burundi and Back Again
3 School and the Discovery of a New World
4 Deterioration of Community Life
5 The Genocide against the Tutsi
6 The Aftermath
7 Growing up an Orphan
8 Working on a New Identity
9 Getting Married and Becoming a Parent
10 Raising Rwanda’s Next Generation
1 Principle 1: Parenting Should Include the Full Participation of All Family Members
2 Principle 2: Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First
3 Principle 3: We Should Lay Down Strong Foundations
4 Principle 4: We Must Trust Our Children with the Truth
5 Principle 5: It Takes a Village to Raise a Child
Bibliograhie
Index
The book is an autobiography with a focus on memory transmission, parenting and intergenerational trauma. It is aimed at a broad audience of academic, student and non-academic readers. Among academic readers, it will be of particular interest for Arts and Humanities scholars and students working on conflict and trauma studies; (e.g. Holocaust studies, genocide studies); Africanist scholars and students; Scholars and students in the Psychological Sciences with an interest in psychological trauma, childhood, parenting, intergenerational trauma, identity.