Our Lady of the Nile

Name: Our Lady of the Nile
Author: Scholastique Mukasonga

by Scholastique Mukasonga

Girls at a Catholic school in Rwanda confront colonial legacy and friendship

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Scholastique Mukasonga

Rwandan French-language novelist whose fiction bears witness to the Tutsi genocide that killed 37 members of her family. Cockroaches is her most celebrated novel, a poignant account of Tutsi life before the genocide.

More by Scholastique Mukasonga

CockroachesMetaphorical tale of resilience told through the perspective of fleeing insects
The Barefoot WomanWoman's survival narrative through genocide and displacement in post-colonial Africa
IgifuIntimate memoir of the 1994 Rwanda genocide told through family memory
KibogoFamily history haunted by the divine specter of a charismatic religious leader