Benjamin Sehene
Benjamin Sehene (born 1959) is a Rwandan author whose work primarily focuses on questions of identity and the events surrounding the Rwandan genocide. He spent much of his life in Canada and lives in France.
Sehene was born in Kigali to a Tutsi family. His family fled Rwanda in 1963 for Uganda, and he studied in Paris at the Sorbonne in the early 1980s, before emigrating to Canada in 1984. He lives in Paris. He is a member of PEN International.
In the aftermath of the 1994
Catholic priest, Father Stanislas, who offered protection to Tutsi refugees in his church before sexually exploiting the women and participating in massacres. Sehene also contributes articles to the online newspaper rue89
.
Publications
- ISBN 2-910019-54-3
- Rwanda's collective amnesia, in The UNESCO Courier, (1999).
- Un sentiment d'insécurité, Play, Paris, 2001
- "Dead Girl Walking" (short story)
- ISBN 2-84405-222-3
- "Ta Race!" (Short story), ISBN 2-911412-40-0
- Die ethnische Falle [1] Wespennest 2006
External links
- Official site
- Interview on SABC(South African TV
- "Dead Girl Walking" (short story)
- Benjamin Sehene's short stories
- Rioting in France: Le Mal Français
- Interview on French culture
- Article in Jeune Afrique
- African writers' index
- Éditions Vents d'Ailleurs
- Rue89
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