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Very little literature has been written in Kinyarwanda (the native language of the country), but there are a number of books written in French. The clergyman and historian Alexis Kagame (1912–81) researched the oral history of Rwanda and published a number of volumes of poetry and Rwandan mythology.
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The name Ibitekerezo is derived from the Kinyarwanda verb gutekereza, which means "to recount, reflect, or consider". [5] [6] Before Rwanda was colonized by the Germans in the late 19th century and later the Belgians after World War I, the history of the national heroes of Rwanda was known to the people through Ibitekerezo. [7]
The royal court [97] included poets (abasizi), [98] who recited Kinyarwanda verse covering topics such as the royal lineage, [98] as well as religion [98] and warfare. [97] History and moral values were also passed down through the generations by word of mouth, and the oral tradition was used as a form of entertainment in precolonial days. [ 97 ]
In 2006, a documentary short about her story, The Diary of Immaculée, was released by Academy Award–nominated documentarians Peter LeDonne and Steve Kalafer. [3]She was featured on one of Wayne Dyer's PBS programs, and also on a December 3, 2006, segment of 60 Minutes (which re-aired on July 1, 2007)
Wava worked as a history teacher before leaving for the Netherlands in 1990 at the age of 27. When he began publishing his writing formally, he used the pseudonym Moses Isegawa. His first novel, Abyssinian Chronicles , a Bildungsroman set during the 1970s and 1980s, was written in English but first published in Dutch in the Netherlands in 1998.
The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory narrative technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to the Dadaists of the 1920s, but it was developed and popularized in the 1950s and early 1960s, especially by writer William Burroughs .
Kinyarwanda is a 2011 film based on the Rwandan genocide. ... [5] and the taboo of ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License