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Nelson Gashagaza
Nelson Gashagaza is a survivor and writer
The good ones are buried within you
My descent into the labyrinth of mental illness felt, to my mother, like a cruel accusation. It felt like a verdict delivered against every choice she had ever made — among them,…
Becoming umwana – a son: Part 2
The family who sheltered me was, by any measure, participating in genocide: they were killing Tutsi every day. They were also, in their own logic, maintaining a family, going to…
Becoming Umwana – a son
In the ruins of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Nelson Gashagaza survived by becoming someone else’s child. In this two-part series as Rwanda commemorates Kwibuka32, he…