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Rwanda means the universe, a native's memoir of blood and bloodlines, Louise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer

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Rwanda means the universe

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Louise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer

a native's memoir of blood and bloodlines

A first-person account of the Rwanda genocide of 1994 describes how the author, a resident of the U.S. at the time, lost most of the members of her family over the course of a week, in a memoir that also describes her family's cultural history and her witness to social relations between Bahutu and Batutsi neighbors

I: Countdown to apocalypse -- In-laws, outlaws, and a pratfall from grace -- Day one: the bankers are restless -- Day two: arcadia adrift -- Day three: a black mamba summons our president to its lair -- Day four: the game is up -- Day five: distant Keening -- Day six: our poor caged bird -- II: In the crèche of the great river -- Mama married the seducer -- The boulevard Bitsinkinkumi -- Alone in Africa -- Bailiff Segahembe -- Melody ranch -- Too much love drives the world insane -- Bujumbura secrets -- "That's all you need to know, you can't go" -- Reconstructing the larger crime -- III: Original sin -- Black man, white man, brigand, fool -- Muganza of the prince's own Inzirabwoba -- Mythmaker, mythmaker -- Among princely domains -- Lady Macbeth in Africa -- Rwanda at the end of her rope -- Captain Max and his renegade Batutsi -- Belgium's Eagnerian swoon -- Kabenga's war with the Belgians -- Little chief Elizabeti -- IV: Interludes with the think itself -- The door cracks -- Where the warder is despair -- The genocide group, SA -- The law must go its way -- The day itself -- A single death, a tragedy; a million, a statistic