About to start 1 of the few books by Scholastique Mukasonga I haven't read yet. They're short stories & I expect most of them will be set in #Rwanda but won't be about the genocide, which is good because as important as the genocide is, Rwanda should not be reduced to it.
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pickWho knows anything about Rwanda that is not related to the genocide? This is a great little volume of short stories set in Rwanda that have absolutely nothing to do with any gruesome murders or anything like that, and that comes with some explanatory notes. It still made me feel like I should read up on that part of Rwanda's history... But ill get to that after reading another book by Mukasonga 😊
There's something so profoundly different about francophone postcolonial literature (regardless of country - this is the first Rwandan book I've ever read) and all the other African literature I've ever read. Do I like the postcolonial ones better because they feel more French than French literature from France, whereas more genuinely regional literature often remind me of Norse sagas in their sparseness? 😶
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