by Eugène Ebodé · ISBN 9782070146314
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«Souveraine Magnifique» is the novel by Eugène Ébodé, published by Gallimard in paperback (170 pages, in French).
The author meets Souveraine Magnifique, a survivor of the 1994 massacres in Rwanda. Twenty years later, their conversations reveal memories, confessions and undiminished anger. Doliba, the cow shared with her parents' executioner, symbolises ancestral wisdom against modern morality and judgements, from the Rwandan hills to the Ruzizi River.
Published in 2014 in Gallimard's Continents noirs collection and winner that year of the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire from ADELF. The cover bears the subtitle «roman».
Reading for those interested in contemporary African literature and narratives on Rwanda's historical memory.
