The Barefoot Woman

Name: The Barefoot Woman
Author: Scholastique Mukasonga

by Scholastique Mukasonga

Woman's survival narrative through genocide and displacement in post-colonial Africa

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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.

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