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earth. for saving google indios tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions. to those being born series of global three thousand on d w and online. this is t.w. news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes rhonda remembers its deadliest one hundred days on sunday the country commemorates the twenty fifth anniversary of the genocide that killed nearly a million people all here from survive is striving to keep the peace. and african literature in focus the second african book festival is underway here in berlin or meet one of the continent's rising star novelists.
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i'm christine one come to the program i'm glad. this weekend walks twenty five years since the start of the rwandan genocide one of the dockets and most brutal chapters in the country's history the cat's in this for the genocide was the downing of a plane carrying rwanda's 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 paul kagame is seize the capital kigali a god they went on to become president in two thousand and remains in power to this day. ahead of the anniversary east africa correspondent a genocide survivor. well we want to give you
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this is where house used to be before the genocide nothing is left of it now. ben to top down after looting it and i mean gas prices. everything when he was just three months old when his parents and four siblings were killed by hutu militias he's a survivor of the one nine hundred ninety four genocide in rwanda the fastest of the twentieth century during which close to a million rundowns 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. is and you were younger 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
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rain was pouring down on us where hard times for many days would flee from the careless you know why we were fleeing we would jump over dead bodies. every stock family history is one she had by many his relatives like countless persecuted to see across the country had sought refuge in a charge when they were killed and charged just like this one in yamato an estimated fifty thousand people died during the genocide today this side stands as one of rhonda's most poignant memorials and the stabbing remind of what happened and physical evidence of crimes that should never be forgotten. doris you can't imagine how it feels like growing up knowing that you're all alone with no parents and new siblings while other children your age have them. eric says his generation's identity is deeply entrenched in the trauma of one thousand nine hundred it's not only survivors who lost their families who are still
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processing the past but also children of perpetrators who participated in the killings like you're in a museum. it's 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. before. we have to take on a lot of responsibility from a young age to. the genocide could cost a long dog shadow over the line to future generations yet they believe in the power of reconciliation is offering a new chapter in run this history. but i'm going to stay youth we have to live in a way that brings us together to keep our country moving forward. where you are the
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future of the country. totally but i visited. my first guest today watched as his father was killed and then fed chief adults joining the ninety ninety four genocide he was seven years old at the time today he's an ambassador for peace with the n.-g. o. one young world he's involved in various activities targeted at peace and forgiveness if a light dee dee what are you a choice me now from god you welcome c d w hippie life how do you survive the genocide. i mean it's embarrassing. when it's genocide and don't say i reserve my of these are about ready to. spend and i spend all the time. being on the dead bodies and my springs and spending nights and i saw in the bush it is and you know and i was made a child survey for
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a kid and i was nothing to do cascade and went to a few column where finally i didn't read for about four months before i was really great right keeping it we're talking about twenty five years off to this this atrocity would you save all reconcile today. collectively yes i have made a very being. on my own worst. towards it most of the action because you have them going to religion where people are living together. projects as insiders the living together now so collectively as romans and say we've made a very big step. i would say that individual he we still have lots of i want to do because because of different reasons and these these hatriot has been planted and so on for so long so i'm off work and
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a long time. to for to really say we are one hundred percent in concert collectively with. individually because of different constants is and wouldn't we still have a long walk to be ok but it's the president offer lined up olcott that may is a contentious take i mean he's been accused off for example stifling the opposition and and not tolerating dissent but others say that has been the necessary evil to keep the peace in rwanda how do you create it's got me in maintaining the peace in in the country i would say. so much cricket's because if you know a country where our people who are curious and you manage as 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 in the whole country and
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people are living side by side pictures inside of us i would say where are you seeing peace in the world. he has so much said it's ok. right to 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 country's role in the london genocide hosted members of an association of genocide victims at the palace rwanda has long accused of supporting the hutu militia that committed the atrocities and then helping some of the perpetrators escape now as the two year investigation the pentagon researchers will have access to the states. france has previously acknowledged its mistakes and wonder but has stopped short of accepting it train the militia that took part in the massacre.
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a book festival bringing together around fifty authors from all over africa is underway here in berlin the african book festival is now in its second year and this is being is titled transitioning from my horatio more than half of new yorkers participating at the event all women and i'm delighted to be joined by one of them in studio right now have you know that and that she too could 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 zimbabwe's 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 how what did it take to get to this point i took a lot me and i studied accounting and i sort of as
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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. it's 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 and i didn't author to be an author in general actually write writing 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 there 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 that's very loaded for african writers very often it is accessibility means fitting into a universal whistle nice kind of standard which doesn't apply to many white writers or european writers and for me i'm always interested first and foremost in black
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writers or black people go to the people i'm interested in but i'm always interested in the stories that i once read first and foremost and there are challenges it has me. that you know publishers will turn it down say we don't think this is going to saw that happen with my first book but that became a base islands of africa so you kind of beginning to see in south africa a big change people turn my decolonization black writers black festivals black publishes talking about the fact that writing and reading is something we've always been doing but it just hasn't been done in a way that effect that that really serves us as black readers and writers ok what's 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 thing there are many conversations that africans are having about this i mean in the last couple years we've seen a big boom and immigrant literature particular of those africans and into the west but even the continent is also africans talking about moving within the continent the story of humanity is
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a story of migration and so we're 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 we're getting to a place where we have a greater sense of self and the world ok that's. prominent novelist it's a start right 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 you're thinking about what the next book is that you're going to read will leave you with some book titles american wealth is that you might want to check out of another weekend about.
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i'm not laughing at the germans because i'm going down but most end up with the german thinks deep into the german culture. we'll get to those gram a day oh you know it's all out there no i'm rachel join me for me to. host. the british. tour linked from africa and the world. your link to it simpson
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stories and discussions in the income student news after going program a night from born in germany of museums and while we've seen a d.w.t. much africa join us on three d. w. africa. the first. welcome to news from the world. well being in the city of volume to have a look at the new bauhaus museum that also coming up an exhibition exploring the complexity and diversity of muslim fashion arrives in frankfurt. and a new london exhibition celebrates the work and influence of iconic british fashion designer mary quant. throughout this year there are
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numerous events celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the bauhaus school one of the most influential movements of art and design in the twentieth century and is still influencing our design all over the world today but our house was founded by visor gold piece in the city of volume ah i'm not sweater a new museum has to celebrate the anniversary and includes every day by our house designs some of which maybe you'll recognize. together let us conceive and create the new building the future those were the goals of powerhouse according to their founding manifesto from one nine hundred nineteen one hundred years later the city of weimar has erected a new monument to this global modernist movement the chief curator for architecture and design from new york's museum of modern art has flown over especially for the unveiling of the company on one hand you can definitely say that modern visual culture and our current visual.

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