Book Launch The Ghosts of 1894

A Novel by Oduor Jagero

© Nzilani Simu Habineza is born in a peaceful Rwanda. But that is short-lived. In 1959, the fierce Hutu Revolution forces him and his family to flee the country to Uganda – into the fangs of Idi Amin’s ghosts.

Believing that the ghosts of Idi Amin will never be exorcised, Habineza leaves for his home country where he starts a family until the ghosts of 1994 emerge and set fire upon the highly inflammable Army, militia, and the people.

Again Habineza is on the run, this time in the company of his wife, two children, a journalist, and a family friend. Will they slip through the bloody roadblocks set up by the dreaded Interahamwe militia? Or will they remain in the overflowing rivers?

Will the UN rescue them? Or will the UN headquarters look the other way?

The book will be launched in the form of a panel discussion.

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