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From Red Earth by Denise Uwimana

From Red Earth

A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness

Denise Uwimana

Plough Publishing House · Print & ebook · April 6, 2019

A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors.

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Who it’s for
A true story that reads for insight, resilience, and the hard work of healing.
Genres
Personal Memoirs, Genocide & War Crimes, Activist Lives
Published
Plough Publishing House, April 6, 2019

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About this book

A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky.

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If this were only a memoir of those chilling days and the long, hard road to personal healing and freedom from her past, it would be remarkable enough. But Uwimana didn’t stop there. Leaving a secure job in business, she devoted the rest of her life to restoring her country by empowering other genocide widows to band together, tell their stories, find healing, and rebuild their lives. The stories she has uncovered through her work and recounted here illustrate the complex and unfinished work of truth-telling, recovery, and reconciliation that may be Rwanda’s lasting legacy. Rising above their nation’s past, Rwanda’s genocide survivors are teaching the world the secret to healing the wound of war and ethnic conflict. Includes 16 pages of color photographs.

What Lands

A true story that reads for insight, resilience, and the hard work of healing.

Come here for

  • healing and forgiveness, told straight
  • cultural context without the sugarcoating

Expect

  • a sustained, reflective narrative
  • Rwanda in personal, human scale

Where it sits

Personal Memoirs41%
Genocide & War Crimes30%
Activist Lives26%

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Publisher categories

  • Personal Memoirs
  • Central African History
  • Genocide & War Crimes
  • Christian Social Issues
Authors
Denise Uwimana
Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Published
April 6, 2019
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Personal Memoirs