CRITIQUE – The Franco-Rwandan rapper has published a committed novel, inspired by his own life and his links with Rwanda where he lives with his wife and their daughters.
April 1994. The narrator, Milan, is 12 years old and lives in Versailles between a French father and a Rwandan mother who never spoke to him about his country or his family. The genocide in Rwanda, the images of which he sees on television, will not change anything: “My mother’s past was a closed door”. However, four years later, she offered to accompany Milan to Rwanda where she had a matter to settle. There he will discover that he has a grandmother and a young uncle who survived the genocide. Another survivor, a childhood friend of her mother, who lost her four children in the massacres, has just had a baby: life is stronger than hatred.
Between tenderness and revolt
Milan will return to Rwanda. When he is a law student, to write a dissertation on the popular tribunals responsible for judging genocidaires. Then, like the author, he will settle there permanently. Over the years, he looks, he listens, he takes notes, he describes: a bloodless and rural country which has developed and urbanized…
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