Basirice Uwamariya, founder of the Kakira Imigongo Cooperative in eastern Kirehe district, told AFP she started making art when she was 15. But the 1994 genocide targeting the Tutsi minority nearly ...

Students and faculty gathered in Doheny Library for a panel discussion on Arts and Reconstruction after Genocide on Thursday. The panel was in conjunction with the performance of Africa’s Hope, a ...

In 2015 he co-founded the Kwanda Art foundation, an organization that promotes Rwanda’s art community through exhibitions, festivals and workshops. Courtesy Tyburn Gallery/ Anthea Pokroy ...

But in the sense, these discarded fragments have been reborn as something far greater and that is a towering silverback gorilla sculpture titled “Renaissance.” The gorilla standing with clenched fists ...

Art student Manzi Yvan Bryan, 19, said the experience was invaluable in finding out more about the events of 1994. "When I was a child we learned about the genocide at school, and sometimes at ...

His three photography-based installations are entitled “The Silence: the Rwanda Project 1994-2000.” They stem from Jaar’s experiences in Rwanda during the genocide of 1994 and on subsequent ...

I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda PRC2 At Elizabeth Kenan Theater, UNC Campus Closed March 28 It’s not always enough to ask what is a play about ...

A world apart, students from Little Village, Rwanda come together through art They exchanged artwork including their handprints and words urging resilience that now adorn one school in Chicago and ...

KIGALI - On sketch pads or computer tablets, a group of young Rwandan artists painstakingly recreate portraits of victims of the 1994 genocide for their loved ones. The illustrators -- like the ...