Rwandan Myth and Christianization in “Kibogo” – Chicago Review of Books

Rwandan Myth and Christianization in “Kibogo” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Kibogo by French-Rwandan writer Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti, recreates mid-20th-century Rwanda, at the time a Belgian colony. The novel begins during the Second World War, some 13 years after Musinga, the Rwandan king, was deposed for his refusal to convert to Catholicism. In the subsequent years, Rwandans were willingly or forcibly converted, … Read more