Writing a Genocide as Literature

MURATA Haruse

doi:10.11619/africa.2018.94_73

<p>The present article aims to clarify how Véronique Tadjo, a modern woman writer from Ivory Coast, succeeds the intension of cultured persons in black world expressed in the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists held in 1956, by reading of several articles in Présence Africaine and Tadjo's literary work L'Ombre d'Imana (translated in English as Shadow of Imana). In the Congress, it was confirmed that black writers and artists should do their part by their creative activity to solve contemporary problems of black people in the world. About 50 years later, in her article in Présence Africaine written in 2003, Tadjo appealed that African writers should write matters of Africans and talk with African readers through their work to prevent conflicts in African continent. So it is thought that L'Ombre d'Imana which deals with the genocide broke out in Rwanda in 1994 was her practice of this claim. This book shows that what happened in Rwanda concerns not only Rwandan people but whole human being. In this way, Tadjo works on actual problems in modern Africa as a writer.</p>

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