Talk by Véronique Tadjo
As evidence emerged of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the outside world reeled in shock. What could have motivated these individual and collective acts of evil? In 1998, author Véronique Tadjo travelled to Rwanda to attempt to find out. The talk will be a reflection on the process of writing and the transforming experience that her journey entailed.
Véronique Tadjo is a poet and a novelist. Based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, she is Visiting Professor at Rutgers University in Fall 2014.
Co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française, Institute of African Studies and Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
