Izuba editions, an upcoming library that focuses on the deliverance of historical editions on Rwandan History and the Great Lakes region will be bridging the gap of Rwanda’s limited access to literary history.
Izuba means “the sun” in Kinyarwanda is the name of the library that was first created in Belguim by author Jean Paul Gouteux a co-editor with “l’Espirit magazine“. His essential hope was expanding peoples’ knowledge on what has for the last decade been a rigid history imposed by foreign societies as well as Rwanda a limit on subjects concerning Rwanda history before the genocide.
At the beginning of colonial invasion, two ethnic tribes in Rwanda have had to live with prejudice and this has proven to be hardest thing they have to live with. But the question is, what was Rwanda like before the colonists came and changed everything..Pops up in conversations.
Soon these questions will be answered in the books that will be coming across nations near your local bookstores.
The 1994 tutsi genocide left the world numb with shock that interference in social and cultural affairs can lead up to disaster. In Jean Pierre’s Chretien’s book “Great Lakes history, 2000 year of history.”
He deconstructs the myths that were so important. The society and the Rwandan culture.
His book is full of documentation’.It is full of ancient Rwandan cultural and social relation until the colonial ambitions destroyed all that.
Izuba editions which commenced in 2011 last year teamed up with a group of people that decided to create a place that has the largest possible access to scripts documents and testimonies as well as analysis on the region of the Great lakes.
Other books in the Izuba editions that will soon be available include “The children of God” written by Jean-Luc Galabert, a non fiction novel that talks about the ancient Rwandan social and cultural history.
Jacques Moral’s novel “France in the heart of the Genocide of the Tutsi” and Lastly but not least “The Black Night” a 5 volume book originally in French that contains details and testimonies of the implications of the French in the last genocide that occurred in Rwanda, a special report by Rapport Mucyo.
The books are currently on sale on line or can be bought in bookstores across Belgium for only 20Euro’s, but the Izuba library will be expanding its sales to bookstores across the globe.
