Book launch – 100 Days, 100 Stories: Rwandan Voices on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi

12 December 2024 18:30 to 20:00

Anatomy Museum, London

12Dec

Please join us to celebrate the publication of 100 Days, 100 Stories edited by Jo Ingabire Moys.

The collection brings together one hundred Rwandan storytellers to reflect on the hundred days of genocide in 1994, and how they have lived on in the aftermath.

Each story offers a particularly vivid memory, decision or moment of change. They take us to the core of what it means to be human in the face of violence and death. Every storyteller comes with a different perspective, be they a survivor, rescuer, perpetrator, returnee or one of their children in Rwanda or in the diaspora.

Our panel to mark the launch will include:

Jo Ingabire Moys

Writer, playwright (I Am Leah), Director of BAFTA-nominated short film Bazigaga and editor of the collection.

Alphonsine Kabagabo

Outgoing Director of Women for Refugee Women, Refugee Council Trustee and contributor to the collection.

Professor Tharcisse Gatwa

Professor of Ethics, Protestant University of Rwanda (retired), author of Home Grown Initiatives in Africa (2022), Home Grown Solutions in Rwanda (2019), The Churches and Ethnic Ideology in the Rwandan Crises, 1990-1994, and contributor to the collection.

Michelle Asante

Actor (I Am Leah, Top Boy, The Essex Serpent, This England, The Suspect, Noughts & Crosses) reading testimonies from the collection.

Dr Zoe Norridge (Chair)

Reader in African Literature and Visual Cultures at King's and associate editor of the collection.

Further speakers to be confirmed.

Following the panel and audience Q&A we will have a drinks reception to continue the conversations in adjacent Anatomy Museum.

Please register in advance. Tickets are free of charge.

Directions: The Anatomy Lecture Theatre is located on the 6^th floor of the main King’s Buiding. External visitors will need to sign in at reception. Then please take a lift to the 6^th floor turn right onto the main corridor and the room (K6.29) is immediately on your right.

This event is being supported by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and by AHRC Grant AH/X005402/1.