‘I did not stop and I did not die’: Rwandan recounts surviving the genocide in his book Die Walking: A Child’s Journey Through Genocide

Rwandan author Obadiah M, who writes under a pseudonym for safety, tells his experience of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and its aftermath.

Die Walking: A Child’s Journey Through Genocide is a book written by a Rwandan author living in East Africa under the pseudonym Obadiah M.Photograph courtesy of House of Anansi Press

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BY OBADIAH M.

October 18, 2021

Messengers moved quickly and quietly between tents: a band of rebel scouts had been apprehended near the camp, and they had confessed that an attack was imminent. We must be ready to leave at a moment’s notice. By now we had sold or lost most of our possessions, so there was not much packing to d...

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