Essays on Rwandan Genocide

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘Hotel Rwanda’ is a movie released in 2004, showing the events of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide viewed by hotel manager, Paul Rusesabagina. Romeo Dallaire, head of the United Nation’s Mission in Rwanda criticizes how the movie portrayed the genocide in its accuracy of events. He...