Essays on Rwandan Genocide

While it is often hard to dictate one single culprit and factor in any historical event, one of the more prominent roots of Rwanda’s problems and challenges is usually traced to 1916 when Belgium began governing Rwanda after the end of World War I. It...

Wars have distinct ways of eruption and escalation. In many instances, wars are foreseen and expected, while in other times they seem rather abrupt and unexpected. Before the 1990s, the world saw more wars based on ideological stances than ethnic strife. However, since the end...

Witnessing history through the lenses of literature can be a daunting one. It is evident that fiction and history share a bipolar relation within writing, and constructing a text which involving both elements is a sensitive issue in the intellectual community today. Journalist & novelist...

The “Rwandan Genocide” happen between April and June of 1994. During just 100 days 800,000 Rwandans were killed. Some of the reasons the Genocide occurred since 1916 when Belgian colonists arrived, and produced identity cards in which Tutsis were considered to be superior to the...

Languages French, English, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili are the official languages that are spoken by the Republic of Rwanda. With more than 12 million speakers, Kinyarwanda is a Bantu ethnic language in various countries including: the Demographic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. In Rwanda, the only...