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Carrying Divine: My Rwanda Genocide Survivor Story by Henriette Nyirarukundo Ngenga with Kristin Ponce' Baker

Carrying Divine: My Rwanda Genocide Survivor Story

by Henriette Nyirarukundo Ngenga with Kristin Ponce' Baker

Pages: 512

Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5

Category
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Personal Memoirs
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Women
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Religious

Type : Paperback

ISBN : 9781498476683

Price : $26.49



In April 1994, the Hutu government
in Rwanda decided that the minority Tutsi tribe was a threat and should be
wiped out completely. Henriette Ngenga was twenty-eight years old and pregnant
with her fifth child, a baby girl named Divine. This young Tutsi mother was
facing a government-mandated massacre with four children between the ages of
one and eight in her care. Hunted by men with machetes, tortured in a prison,
and beaten savagely, she felt her daughter writhing from starvation inside her
womb, while privately rejoicing that there was still any movement at all. This
is one mother

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