problems are always the same core to the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption work on the fourth to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see her to fulfill her is to put their trust in us. my name is jenny hers and i work. this is d.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 underway here in berlin

will meet one of the continent's rising stars. i'm christine one double come to the program i'm glad you're cheated in this weekend walks twenty five years since the start of the rwandan genocide one of the darkest and most brutal chapters in the country's history the catalyst for the genocide was the downing of a plane carrying 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 began 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 gandhi went on to become president in two

thousand and remains in power to this day. ahead of the anniversary east africa correspondent met a genocide survivor. we want to. this is where house used to be before the genocide and nothing is left of it now. bent it all down after looting it and i mean gas prices. everything was he was just three months old when his parents and four siblings were killed by hutu militias he's a survivor of the one thousand nine hundred four genocide in rwanda the fastest of the twentieth century during which close to a million randoms mostly to see 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 her 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's dog family history is one shared by many his relatives like countless persecuted to see across the country had sought refuge in a charge when they were killed and chads just like this one in yamato an estimated fifty thousand people died during the genocide today this side stands as one of run this most poignant memorials and stabbing remind of what happened and physical evidence of crimes that should never be forgotten. 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 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 nichiren him and said oh . 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 children we have to take on a lot of responsibility from a young age to. the genocide could cast a long dark shadow over their lives and future generations yet i believe in the power of reconciliation is offering a new chapter and run with history. but i want to stay 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. totally but as you will. my first guest today watched as he's father was killed and then fed to the dogs join 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 he did what joins me 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 rail about way. as i have spent i spend all the time being like worried for. the dead bodies and my springs and spending the nights i myself in the

bush it is and you know and i was made a child surveyed for the kid and i was lucky to see yes kate and went to her if you count where finally i didn't need 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 say why are reconciled today. collectively yes i have made a very being. on my own and worst. towards it was the action because you have been going to religion where people are living together. projects as insiders 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 all summer long so i. walk in there a long time to two feet to really say we are one hundred percent who comes out so collectively with a bridge or individually because of different constants is and wouldn't we still have a long walk to the ok but it's the president of rwanda polk academy is a contentious week 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 paul kagame in maintaining the peace. in the country i would say. so much cricket's because if you know a country where our people are obscured and you manage as a group as a leader if we managed to set up a system which has brought back. the 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 picture of thousands of lives i would say where are you seeing peace in the world. so much that it's ok. 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 mccraw on hosted members of an association of genocide victims at the palace i 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 access to the state's archives

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 crystal is now in its second year and this year's theme is titled transitioning from my gracious 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 have you know there. is a prominent intellectual and a creative african feminist for ease into the eighty's 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 does it take to get to this point and took a lot me and i studied accounting and i started off as 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 so it's you know we could do a whole workshop on what it takes to become an adding or to be an author in general actually right 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 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 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 want to read first and foremost and there are challenges it has. that you know publishers will turn it down say we don't think this is going to solve the happened 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 right to 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 that there are many conversations that africans are having about this i mean in the last couple years you've seen

a big boom and immigrant literature particular of the africans who move 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 many different kinds of conversations many fit 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 is say it right there from zimbabwe thank you. and that is that for now from deja 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 meet will leave you with some book titles american all of those that you might want to check out have a lovely week and i think. it's

time to take one step further and face the. time to some. fun trying. to overcome. and. it's time for. coming up ahead.

here's what's coming up for the booklet is plenty to talk about here. is one such a local means for the title of course. the disney go every weekend here con w. . welcome to news from the world. well be 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 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 p.s. in the city of volume ah and that's where 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 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 it especially for

the unveiling that comes in just on one hand you can definitely say that modern visual culture and our current visual concert.