you know work together for a better future and. see for yourself. in. sixty minutes on d w. what secrets lie behind these memos. finding many years of experience and exploring prosody cultural heritage sorry. d w world territory for sixteen years. this is g.w. news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes rwanda remembers its deadliest one hundred days on sunday the country commemorates the twenty fifth anniversary of the genocide that killed nearly a million people will hear from survivors striving to keep the peace. and african literature in focus the second african book festival is and await your name

will meet one of the continent's rising star obvious. i'm christine one girl welcome 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 catalyst for the genocide was the donning off 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 the killing stopped 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 the

stay. ahead of the anniversary east africa correspondent met a genocide survivor. we want to hide and this is where our house used to be before the genocide nothing is left of it now. benton told down after looting it and i guess i see. 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 randoms 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.

she carried me on head back during the genocide right up until the killing stopped she told me how horrific it was she witnessed that all the rain was pouring down on us where hard times for many days would flee from the careless you know while we were fleeing we would jump over dead bodies. eric stock family history as one shared by many his relatives like countless persecuted tutsi across the country had sought refuge in a charge when they were killed and chads just like this one in myanmar were 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 our children you know each of them. eric

says his generation's identity is deeply entrenched in the true one thousand nine hundred so many survivors who lost their families who are still processing the past but also children of perpetrators who participated in the killings mcgeary name is adam. you know. 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 it was called for you asked children we have to take on a lot of responsibility from a young age to. the genocide could cost a long dark shadow over their lives and future generations yet i believe in the power of reconciliation and suffering in new chapter and run this history.

as the youth we have to live in a way that brings us together to keep our country moving forward. where you are the future of the country. would you want to be motivated you will be. my first guest today watched as his father was killed and then fed to the dogs joining the ninety ninety four genocide he was seven years old at the time today he is an ambassador for peace with the n.-g. o. one young world he's involved in various activities targeted at peace and forgiveness if the light do what it what choice may now from god he welcomes d.w. hiper 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 you know about way to. spend i spent all the time. being on

the dead bodies and mass graves and spending nights myself in the bush it is and you know and i was made a child surveyed for a kid and i was lucky to see you kiss and went to do you count where finally i didn't read for about four months before i was really great write the paper 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 was. towards him as the action because you have been going to religion where people are living together that bridges and survivors the living together now so collectively as romans i would 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 some long so. long time. to fifty to really say we are one hundred percent you can say collectively with a bridge or individually because of different kinds and as and woman's list you have a long walk to the ok but it's the president offer lined up polk academy is a contentious faith i mean he's been accused off for example stifling the opposition and and not tolerating dissent but i must say that has been the necessary evil to keep the peace and wind at how do you credits paul kagame in maintaining the peace in in the country i would say. so much cricket's because if you know a country where our people are it's yours and you manage as a leader if we managed to set up a system which has brought back. in ninety two percent of children go to

school ninety four percent of people insured by america and the whole country and people are living side by side pictures and survivalist i would say where are you seeing peace in the world. so much that 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 macross hosted members of an association of genocide victims that they. wonder has long accused of supporting the hutu militia that committed the atrocities and then helping some of the perpetrators escape now as part of the two year investigation the panel researchers will have at say as to the states. france has previously

acknowledged its mistakes and but has stopped short of accepting it train the militia that took part in a mask. 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 year's theme is tired old transitioning from my creation more than half of the office participating at the event all women and i'm delighted to be joined by one of them in studio right now and have you know that an asher to live 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. what

did it take to get to this point i took a lot so i mean i studied accounting and i started off as a reporter with you in the newsroom and 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 so it's you know we could do a whole workshop on what it takes to become an add in or be an author in general actually write right 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 dance 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're writing 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 westernized 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 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. means that you know publishers will turn it down say we don't think this is going to solve the happened in my first book but that became a base elements of africa so you kind of beginning to see in south africa a big change people try decolonization black writers black festivals black publishes writers and we're 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 that there are many conversations that africans are having about this i mean in the last couple of years you've seen

a big boom and immigrant literature particular of those africans who moved to the west but even the continent is also africans talking about moving within the continent the story of humanity is 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 that shit you see prominent novelist say it's right from zimbabwe thank you. and that is that for now from news africa you can as always catch all 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 titles i'm african all of those that you might want to check out have a lovely week and i think. everyone

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and a new london exhibition celebrates the work and influence of iconic british fashion designer mary quant. throughout this year there are numerous event 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 phone house according to their founding manifesto from the 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 to specially for the

unveiling they come in on one hand you can definitely say that modern visual culture and our current visual concert.