Tierno Monenembo writes genocide into memory to devastating effect
Tierno Monenembo was among the African authors invited to Rwanda
after the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu massacre to write genocide into memory.
In his novel The Oldest Orphan, that is precisely what Monenembo
does, to devastating effect. Powerful testimony to an unspeakable
historical reality, this story is told by an adolescent on death
row in a prison in Kigall, the capital of Rwanda. Dispassionately,
almost cynically, the teenager Faustin tells his tale, alternating
between his days in jail, his adventures wandering the countryside
after his parents and most of the people of his village have been
massacred, and his escapades as a cheerful hoodlum in the streets
of Kigali. Only slowly does the full horror of his parents' death
and his own experience return to Faustin. His realization strikes
the reader with shattering force, for it carries in its wake the
impossible but inescapable questions presented by such a murderous
episode of history and such a crippling experience for a child, a
people, and a nation.
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