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“All the sun and magic of Africa are baked into Gaile Parkin’s debut novel. . . . We peek into a warm and practical community as colorful as [the heroine’s] dazzling confections.”—The Christian Science Monitor
This soaring novel introduces us to Angel Tungaraza: mother, cake baker, pillar of her community, keeper of secrets big and small. Angel’s kitchen is an oasis in the heart of Rwanda,
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Rainbow Pigeons Press
Pub. Date
2021
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Swahili
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Karabo amepona mauaji ya kimbari dhidi ya Watusi mwaka 1994 ambayo yaliyatwaa maisha ya baba yake na wadogo zake. Sasa ameachwa peke yake miongoni mwa mioyo iliyojeruhiwa nchini Rwanda, na hafahamu mahali alipo mama yake. Karabo alipokwenda kuishi na baba yake mkubwa, ambaye ni kanali kwenye jeshi jipya, anakutana na Shema, mhanga mwingine wa mauaji ya kimbari akiwa miongoni mwa walinzi vijana wa baba yake mkubwa. Tabasamu la Shema linamtetemesha,...
5) Igifu
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Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. In the title story, five-year-old Colomba tells of a merciless overlord, hunger or igifu, gnawing away at her belly. She searches for sap at the bud of a flower, scraps of sweet potato at the foot of her parent's bed, or a few grains of sorghum in the floor...
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Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In early twentieth-century Rwanda, Catholic priests, sponsored by the European colonial powers, celebrate Yezu and Maria, forcing mass conversions upon the rural population. Meanwhile, a small band of Black American evangelists preach the imminent coming of a Black savior who will restore Rwanda to its former greatness. Their prophetess, sister Deborah, who can heal with her touch, predicts that this new Messiah will be a black woman: 'A thousand...
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