The
2019 edition of Miracle in Kigali, marking the 25th
anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, will be published by PaulDickson Books on Monday 8 April.
The
new edition updates Illuminée and Roger’s story, including Roger’s
developing film and TV acting career. He was most recently seen as
Dadir Hassan in the BBC drama Informer.
The authors are donating £2 from the sale of every book to Glaven Valley Churches' work with the Life in Abundance charity in Rwanda.
Paperback, price £12. ISBN
978-0-9956187-9-4.
Miracle
in Kigali was first published by The Tagman Press in October 2007.
How
does it feel to wake up every morning for more than three months
facing the prospect that you and your newborn baby are likely to be
brutally murdered that day?
This
was the experience of Illuminée Nganemariya, a young Tutsi bride. By
a seeming miracle, she and her son Roger survived the 1994 attempt by
Rwanda’s Hutu extremists to wipe their Tutsi neighbours from the
face of the earth.
Illuminée
existed for 100 days in the living hell of Kigali, Rwanda’s
capital, after watching her husband be dragged away to be killed by
friends who had celebrated their wedding with them a month earlier.
She
embarked on a horrific journey through the Genocide, with her baby
strapped to her back – their survival was a miracle.
Illuminée
and Roger moved to the UK in September 1996 and have built a new life
in Norwich.
‘Illuminée
still cannot explain how she and her son Roger survived. Reading her
book, it becomes clear that there were many, many, miracles.’ Rowan
Mantell, Norwich Evening News.
‘Miracle
in Kigali is an extraordinary document – a unique, tragic, insiders
guide to Genocide. This is a book about what a mother will endure to
keep her child alive. I read it and wanted to give Illuminée a big
hug. She’s my hero.’ Nick Andrews, BBC
