The Hope That Remains: Canadian Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide by Christine Magill – Each chapter focuses on a Rwandan survivor and their journey to Canada to escape the violence and chaos that overtook their country. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother’s voice in a haunting work of art. The story of the author’s mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga – A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family’s story be forgotten. There are several additional books, that we would like to raise awareness of as well, a few of which have been published for some years but are no less powerful today. Last year in our News section which featured posts on a journal published by one of our supporters, Mamie Philip, Ten Days in Rwanda – as well as the memoir of the former Executive Secretary of our partner organisation AERG, Omar Ndizeye, Life and Death in Nyamata. Most recently we have showcased a remarkable new book of testimonies published as And I Live On. At Survivors Fund (SURF) we often come across new books on the genocide, or published testimonies of survivors.
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