Mail & Guardian · 2004-03-22 · article

This article profile highlights Ivorian writer and poet Véronique Tadjo’s participation in the 7th Time of the Writer Festival in Durban, South Africa. The piece focuses on her powerful travelogue, In the Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda, which explores the harrowing aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Tadjo reflects on the psychological burden of witnessing such trauma and draws poignant parallels between Rwanda’s path to justice and South Africa’s own reconciliation process. The article emphasizes her mission to humanize victims through literature, cautioning that acknowledgement and deep-seated memory are essential to preventing the resurgence of ethnic or racial violence.

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