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Miracle in Kigali: The Rwandan Genocide - a Survivor's Journey

Miracle in Kigali: The Rwandan Genocide - a Survivor's Journey

by Paul Dickson (Author), Illuminée Nganemariya (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

By a seeming miracle, Illuminee Nganemariya, a young Tutsi bride and her newborn son Roger survived the 1994 attempt by Rwanda's Hutu extremists to wipe their Tutsi neighbours from the face of the earth. Illuminee existed for 100 days in the living hell of Kigali, Rwanda's capital, after watching her husband being dragged away to be killed by friends who had celebrated their wedding with them a month earlier. Then she embarked on a horrific journey through the Genocide with Roger strapped to her back. At any moment a wrong move would have seen them join the 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were slaughtered in the space of just three months. Illuminee Nganemariya has spent the last decade living in Norwich, England, dealing with the trauma of her 100-day nightmare.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 152
 Publisher: Tagman Press, an Imprint of Tagman Worldwide Ltd.
Published: 04 Oct 2007
ISBN 10: 1903571707
ISBN 13: 9781903571705

Media Reviews
Reading about real-life atrocity is never going to be something to enjoy, but it doesn't stop you from being glad you read it. Emma Delf Urbane magazine Illuminee still cannot explain how she and her son Roger survived. Reading her book, it becomes clear that there were many, many, miracles. Rowan Mantell Norwich Evening News I can't say I was delighted at the prospect of reading a survivor's account of the Rwandan Genocide, but from the opening pages, Illuminee Nganemariya's modestly told narrative compels you to follow her bloody journey through Le Pays des Mille Collines--Rwanda, land of a thousand hills. Louisa Sutton Cambridge Student magazine
Author Bio
Illuminee Nganemariya was born in Kigali, Rwanda in 1968, the youngest child of a middle class Tutsi family. She married John Nsengiyumva on April 3, 1994, two days before the death of President Juvenal Habyarimana, the spark that lit the Rwandan Genocide. Her son Roger was born at the height of the Genocide. Illuminee and Roger have lived in Norwich since 1996, and were both granted British citizenship in 2004. Illuminee's ambition is to open the first Rwandan restaurant in Norwich.Paul Dickson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1955. He has lived in the Norwich area since 1988, where he works as afreelance public relations consultant and writer. This is his second Tagman Press collaboration.