Tag: Burundi

  • Taken from their mothers in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, decades on a group of mixed-race elderly people are fighting the Belgian state for recognition and reparations.

  • Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has apologised for the kidnapping of thousands of children born to mixed-race couples during colonial rule in Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda.

  • A haunting and luminous novel of extraordinary power, Small Country describes a devastating end of innocence as seen through the eyes of a young child caught in the maelstrom of history.

  • In his first novel, “Small Country” — a huge hit in France when it was published in 2016 and where it sold 700,000 copies — Mr. Faye wrote with a rare and subtle yearning about his youthful escapades in and around Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. It has now been translated from French into English…

  • Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Cambridge University Press January 2002 224 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521004275 Hardback ISBN: 9780521808231 eBook ISBN: 9780511029325 DOI: 10.2277/0521004276 Edited by: David I. Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology & Italian Studies Brown University…