Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel | 
pickA compelling and chilling account of a group of young women at an elite boarding school in Rwanda in the 1970s. Through a year in the life of these girls, Mukasonga examines prejudice, colonialism, religious missionaries, racial tensions, and the simmering undercurrent of Hutu/Tutsi aggressions that led to the horrors of the 1990s. This one will stay with me for a while.
pickAction is set in a catholic boarding school for girls in Rwanda during 1970s. Conflicts between Hutu majority and Tutsi minority are already in place. A snapshot of racial conflifcts that will lead to a terrible genocide in 1994.
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Loved this book set in Rwanda in the 1970s in the prelude to the Genocide that took place. It‘s set in a high school for elite girls, as the events leading up to the Genocide start to take an impact on relationships and friendships in the school, and leads to racial hatred, persecutions and worse. Must reading.
Another book made the list due to #ReadingAfrica2022 @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
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pickI wasn‘t sure about this book going into it but really enjoyed it. Shows clearly how some ethnic groups are treated horrendously by those who have the power and can see how the genocide blew up in Rwanda. Made me look further into the history 😭 A good read for #Rwanda for #ReadingAfrica2022
2nd Book finished for #Joys of June, 9th book for #BigJuneReadathon
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Starting the tagged book for the #ReadingAfrica2022 Challenge, for which it should cover #Rwanda
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pickComing-of-age novels about girls are usually written in rosy, nostalgic style, and this boarding school novel is no different. What's different is how these girls come of age: rather than maturing and accepting responsibility, this documents the transformation of girls who innocently/thoughtlessly parrot their parents' genocidal rhetoric into women who have internalized the rhetoric as their own. 👇👇👇
When you head to the library and browse specifically for #WITmonth ♥️ #bookhaul #HSreadathon @rmaclean4 see any that look good? 🙂 I've heard great things about most of these so I'm excited to dig in!
"You remember what they used to tell us in catechism: God roams the world, all day long, but every evening He returns home to Rwanda. Well, while God was traveling, Death took his place, and when He returned, She slammed the door in his face."
pickI read this for my book club. A look at Rwanda in the sixties through the eyes of teenage girls studying at a prestigious lycée. Well worth a read.
pickMukasonga tells the story of a girls' school in Rwanda pre-genocide. The rising tension between the Hutus and Tutsis is evident from the beginning of the novel. Each chapter felt like it could stand alone, which made for an interesting reading experience. I enjoyed the variety of characters from the nuns at the school to the girls. (I would recommend almost anything Archipelago publishes!)
