Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Butare, Rwanda in 1979. Surviving the Tutsi genocide, she moved to France in 1994 to study political science and work for humanitarian causes. She is now an acclaimed novelist and poet.
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March 6, 08:30pm
March 6, 08:30pm
Acclaimed Rwandan-French poet and author Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse talks to Fergal Keane about her at once horrifying and moving memoir of surviving the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.