Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide Along with nine other African Writers, Veronique Tadjo was invited to visit Rwanda to bear witness to the genocide that took place in 1994 - wiping out one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus during a hundred days of barbaric violence. A poet and a storyteller, the author consistently achieves the right tone that challenges our preconceptions. From the unexpurgated story of a young woman reliving the horrors of the massacre to dialogues between strangers meeting across the past, and finally to her own reflections. Her prose alternates between raw and poetic, but always remains discreet, respectful and dignified. The one thing that comes through her narrative voice is a ray of hope. The translator Veronique Wakerley lectures in French at the University of Zimbabwe and is particularly interested in the literature of the first part of the twentieth century.

The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda (African Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Véronique Tadjo

History & Criticism

Heinemann

This selection of poetry for young readers concerns happiness and sorrow, life and death, humour and anger, and hope and delusion. It tells the story of Africa and Africans through their poetry.

Talking Drums : An Anthology of Poems from Africa South of the Sahara

A&C Black Childrens

"To attain some sort of universal value," Véronique Tadjo has said, "a piece of work has to go deep into the particular in order to reveal our shared humanity." In Far from My Father, the latest novel from this internationally acclaimed author, a woman returns to the Côte d'Ivoire after her father’s death. She confronts not only unresolved family issues that she had left behind but also questions about her own identity that arise amidst the tensions between traditional and modern worlds. The drama that unfolds tells us much about the evolving role of women, the legacy of polygamy, and the economic challenges of daily life in Abidjan. On a more autobiographical level, the author depicts a daughter’s efforts to come to terms with what she knew and did not know about her father. Set against the backdrop of civil strife that has wracked the Côte d'Ivoire since the turn of the century, this story shows Tadjo’s remarkable ability to inhabit a character’s inner world and emotional landscape while creating a narrative of great historic and cultural dimensions.CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from the French

Far from My Father (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

Literary

University of Virginia Press

"To attain some sort of universal value," Véronique Tadjo has said, "a piece of work has to go deep into the particular in order to reveal our shared humanity." In Far from My Father, the latest novel from this internationally acclaimed author, a woman returns to the Côte d'Ivoire after her father’s death. She confronts not only unresolved family issues that she had left behind but also questions about her own identity that arise amidst the tensions between traditional and modern worlds. The drama that unfolds tells us much about the evolving role of women, the legacy of polygamy, and the economic challenges of daily life in Abidjan. On a more autobiographical level, the author depicts a daughter’s efforts to come to terms with what she knew and did not know about her father. Set against the backdrop of civil strife that has wracked the Côte d'Ivoire since the turn of the century, this story shows Tadjo’s remarkable ability to inhabit a character’s inner world and emotional landscape while creating a narrative of great historic and cultural dimensions.
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from the French

A multi-layered narrative comprising a series of interwoven short stories and poetic texts which can be read within continental Africa, the African Diaspora and beyond. Tadjo imagines an African society on the brink of total collapse yet there is no doubt that the story resonates in unsettling ways with recent political and social unrest in Côte d’Ivoire. This is a narrative of devastating ideographic power from one of the most important voices in African writing today.

The Blind Kingdom

United States

Lynne Rienner

Artist, writer, arts administrator and curator David Koloane has established a reputation both locally and internationally. His paintings and graphics have been featured in major collections and exhibitions worldwide. His work reflects the socio-political landscape of South Africa both past and present. The conditions created by the apartheid system have, to a large extent, transfixed the human condition as the axis around which his oeuvre revolves. Fellow artist and novelist Veronique Tadjo is from Ivory Coast but has made Johannesburg her temporary home. She is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction for adults and children and has woven the strands of thought and theme in Koloane s work into an atmospheric text. Koloane's voice comes through in short discussions and musings on individual works, here documented in beautiful colour reproductions.

TAXI-006: David Koloane

David Krut Publishing

"I have not recovered from Rwanda. Rwanda cannot be exorcised. Danger is ever-present, lurking in the memory, crouching in the bush in neighbouring countries. Violence it still there, on every side." Véronique Tadjo
 As evidence emerged of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the outside world reeled in shock. What could have motivated these individual and collective acts of evil? In 1998, Véronique Tadjo traveled to Rwanda to try to find out. She started with the premise that what happened in Rwanda concerns us all: "We need to understand. Our humanity is in peril."
 The Shadow of Imana is a reminder that humankind the world over is capable of genocide. Records of what the author saw—sites of massacres, corpses, weapons dumps—are combined with personal stories of traumatized returnees, bereaved survivors, rape victims, orphans, lawyers faced with the impossible task of doing justice, prisoners. But Tadjo's story goes beyond mere reportage of death and cruelty. Her poetically wrought account incorporates traditional tales, explores the spiritual legacy of the genocide, and uncovers a healing vitality as well as a commitment to forgiveness.
 Véronique Tadjo was born in Paris and grew up in Côte d'Ivoire. The Shadow of Imana has been translated from the French by Véronique Wakerley.
 Table of Contents
 The First Journey
 The Wrath of the Dead
 His Voice
 Anastase and Anastasie
 Those Who Were Not There
 The Second Journey

The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Waveland Press. Inc.

In a series of moving snapshots, Véronique Tadjo illustrates the terrible extent of the Ebola epidemic: the doctor who tirelessly treats patients day after day in a sweltering tent, protected from the virus only by a plastic suit; the student who volunteers to work as a gravedigger while universities are closed, helping the teams overwhelmed by the sheer number of bodies; the grandmother who agrees to take in an orphaned young boy cast out of his village for fear of infection. And watching over them all is the ancient and wise Baobab tree, mourning the dire state of the earth yet providing a sense of hope for the future. Acutely relevant to our times in light of the coronavirus pandemic, In the Company of Men explores critical questions about how we cope with a global crisis and how we can combat fear and prejudice.

In The Company of Men: The Ebola Tales

Contemporary

Hope Road

Le Seigneur de la Danse

Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes

Le Seigneur De La Danse

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The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda (African Writers Series)

Talking Drums : An Anthology of Poems from Africa South of the Sahara

Far from My Father (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

Far from My Father (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

The Blind Kingdom

TAXI-006: David Koloane

The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda

In The Company of Men: The Ebola Tales

Le Seigneur de la Danse

Le Seigneur De La Danse