Memoir books from Burundi
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If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Burundi for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Princesse des rugo : mon histoire by Esther Kamatari, Marie Renault FR
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Espoir. J'ai fui ma patrie après le massacre des miens. Princesse burundaise devenue top-model à Paris, j'en appelle aux valeurs qui ont fondé mon pays pour que les enfants ne paient pas le prix de la folie des hommes.
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The Tears of a Man Flow Inward: Growing Up in the Civil War in Burundi by Pacifique Irankunda EN
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A prizewinning young author tells the moving story of growing up during Burundi’s ethnic civil war in this powerful memoir hailed as “a jewel of a book” (Margaret MacMillan). “There’s nothing like a great love song, and Pacifique Irankunda sings a beautiful one here to his homeland and to all those who choose love even in the bleakest of times.”—Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers and How Beautiful We Were Pacifique Irankunda’s childhood in Burundi was marked by a thirteen-year civil war—a grueling struggle that destroyed his home, upended his family, and devastated his country’s beauti... continue