Miracle in Kigali

Monday, 4 July 2011

Buy Miracle in Kigali at miracleinkigali.co.uk

You can now buy Miracle in Kigali at http://www.miracleinkigali.co.uk/ for £10 plus £2 p&p (UK addresses only).

Monday, 6 June 2011

Miracle in Kigali at Fairhaven Green Festival

We will be at Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden Green Festival, Sunday, June 26, www.fairhavengarden.co.uk. Meet us at the Miracle in Kigali stand in the Dell.

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Tagman Press Writers Consortium 29 April

Tagman Press Writers Consortium Reed's Tombland Norwich 29 April 2011.

Back L to R: Dave Kelly, Pauline Kelly, Illuminee Nganemariya, Robin Squire, Pamela Masters, Michael Bland, John Clements. Front L to R: Paul Dickson, Susan Culverwell, Gill Dalton, Anthony Grey, Roger Chamberlain, Jane Aldiss, http://www.tagmanpress.co.uk.

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Tagman Writers Consortium

We are going to the Tagman Writers Consortium on Friday. A new and unique grouping of present and future Tagman authors is being founded in Norwich on the day of the Royal Wedding to increase collaboration between writers and publisher.
http://www.tagmanpress.co.uk.

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

The Rwandan Genocide - a survivor's guide

The Rwandan Genocide - a survivor's guide, Friday 18 March at 7pm at Forget-me-Not Café, St Michael-at-Plea Church, Redwell Street Norwich. Illuminée Nganemariya tells her story introduced by Anthony Grey, followed by two course meal and tea/coffee. Ticket £16 tel 01603 766978, email norwichcrc@btconnect.com.

Monday, 6 December 2010

50 Christmas Trees in a Church - Miracle in Kigali

Here is a photograph of Paul Dickson and Illuminee Nganemariya with the Miracle in Kigali tree at 50 Christmas Trees in a Church, Dickleburgh, which runs until Sunday 12 December, 10am to 7pm daily (closes 4pm on 12 December), http://www.50christmastrees.com.

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Meeting The Lord Mayor with Anthony Grey

We accompanied Anthony Grey, owner of The Tagman Press on a visit to the Lord Mayor of Norwich, Councillor Tom Dylan on Tuesday 30 November.

Anthony was invited to meet the Lord Mayor of Norwich on his return from two years as a hostage in Beijing in 1969, but was not able to take up the invitation. So he finally made it 41 years later.

Anthony presented The Lord Mayor with copies of his The Hostage Handbook, the secret diary he kept in captivity and Illuminee's Miracle in Kigali. For more information about The Hostage Handbook see http://www.tagmanpress.co.uk.

Pictured left to right: Shane and Irene Hancock, Directors The Tagman Press, Anthony Grey, The Lord Mayor, Illuminee Nganemariya and Paul Dickson.

Miracle in Kigali Introduction

Miracle in Kigali

How does it feel to wake up every single morning for over three months facing the prospect that you and your newborn baby will almost certainly be brutally murdered that day?

This was the experience of Illuminée Nganemariya, a young Tutsi bride, now living in Norwich, England. Yet by a seeming miracle Illuminee, and her son Roger miraculously 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 being dragged away to be killed by friends who had celebrated their wedding with them a month earlier.

Then she embarked on a horrific journey through the barbaric holocaust with her newborn son strapped to her back. At any moment a wrong move would have seen them join the 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were murdered in three months - at a faster rate than the Nazis achieved in their industrial gas chambers.

One of Africa’s most beautiful and fertile countries, Le Pays de Mille Collines – The Land of a Thousand Hills – Rwanda descended into pre-historic savagery. Fired by a cocktail of drugs and alcohol, the killers went about their work seemingly without remorse or mercy.

Friend murdered friend, slashing and cutting with machetes and bamboo spears. Thousands of women were casually gang-raped. Pregnant women had their unborn babies ripped from their wombs and smashed against the nearest tree or wall. ‘Lucky’ victims paid for a quicker despatch, courtesy of a bullet to the head.

Illuminée Nganemariya is a survivor. She has spent the last decade, living in Norwich, dealing with the trauma of her 100-day nightmare. She is believed to be the first survivor of the Rwandan genocide resident in Britain to tell a personal story of that experience. With the assistance of Paul Dickson, Illuminee has recounted her ordeal in this book to finally put the memory of those tragic events behind her.

It is one woman’s story of enormous personal courage and character -- but most of all it is testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit.

Miracle in Kigali, price £12 can be purchased via Paul Dickson Books www.pauldicksonbooks.co.uk/miracle-in-kigali ; also available as an ebook on all main ebook sites including Amazon.

Finalist in The Creative East Awards 2008 Best Factual Publication.