what's your story. with numbers of women especially are victims of violence. part and send us your story we are trying always to understand this new culture. saw you on another visit to another guest you want to become a citizen. migrants your platform for reliable information. this is deja 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 or meet one of the continent's rising star novelists. i'm christine wonderwall come to the program i'm glad you're tuned in this weekend 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 the plane carrying rwanda's then president juba now. he was a hoot he was on his way back from peace talks in tanzania with tutsi rebels the very next day the massacre began over a period of just one hundred days nearly one million people most of them tutsis were killed by hutu militias became in stopped when the tutsi rebels led by a poor guy may 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. you know we want to. this is where our house used to be before the genocide and nothing is left of it now. ben to top down after looting it and i mean gas price and. everything was it 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 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 one minute. you're talking

as if you were younger she carried me on her back during the genocide right up until that killing stopped she told me how horrific it was she witnessed it all the rain was pouring down on us those were hard times for many of these would flee from the careless you know while we were fleeing we would jump over our dead bodies will be. eric's dog family history is one sad by many his relatives like countless persecuted to see across the country had sought refuge in a church 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 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 about children you know each of them. eric says

his generation's identity is deeply entrenched in the truth one thousand nine hundred one only survivors who lost their families who are still processing the past but also children of perpetrators who participated in the killings nichiren him. it's very hard to find yourself all alone either because your family members were killed for being too see or in my case with parents who are in prison because they were convicted of participating in the genocide it was. for your children we have to take on a lot of responsibility from a young to. the genocide could cost a long dark shadow over the lives of future generations yet i believe in the power of reconciliation is offering a new chapter and rwandans 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. totally motivated you will be. my first guest today watched as he's 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's an ambassador for peace with the n.-g. o. one young world he's involved in various activities targeted at peace and forgiveness. dee dee what are you a choice mate now from kigali welcome to day w hip allies how did you survive the genocide. i mean it's embarrassing. when it's genocide and don't say i recently these are all about ready to. spend i spend all the time giving my character. sleeping on the dead bodies in my

springs and spending the nights myself in the bush it is and you know and i was made a child surveyed for the kid and i was nothing to do cascade and went to do you count where finally i didn't read for about four months before i was really crazy right keeping it we're talking about twenty five years off to this this atrocity would you save all reconcile today. collectively yes rather than have made a very being. on my own worst. towards it was the action because you have been going to religion where people are living together. projects as insiders 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 this hatred has been planted

and so on for so long so. long time. to for to really say we are one hundred percent you can see it so collectively with . individually because of different circumstances 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 and rwanda how do you create it's got me in maintaining the peace in in the country i don't say. so much cricket's because you're in a country were people who are curious and you manage as good 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 in 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. to run 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. the two year investigation the panel researchers will have to the states. france has previously

acknowledged its mistakes 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 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 there. is a prominent intellectual and a creative african feminist four days into an eighty 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 i took a lot 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 manuscripts submitted you know we could do a workshop on what it takes to become an add in or be an author in general actually 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 want to 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 saw that happen with my first book but that became a base islands of africa so you kind of been beginning to see in south africa a big change people to my decolonization black writers black festivals black publishers 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 who move to the west but in within the continent it's 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's ok that's. see prominent novelist is a star writer from zimbabwe thank you. and that is it 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 titles from african all of those that you might want to check out of another weekend that.

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