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Rwandan author, Benjamin Sehene
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Benjamin Sehene is a Rwandan writer, born in Kigali, Rwanda of Tutsi parents. At the age of four his family was forced to flee into exile. He grew up and went to school in Uganda. In 1984 he immigrated to Canada where he started writing in 1988. In 1994, he was living in Paris, France when the genocide begun in Rwanda. And he undertook a journey back to the country of his birth in the midst of the genocide and civil war about which he was to write his monumental book called"Le Piège Ethnique(The Ethnic Trap):Benjamin Sehene:: Rwanda et Littérature
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Birth Place
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kigali, rwanda
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Prix Panafricain du livre de voyage 2000
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Contact Information
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9 passage Dagorno
Paris 75020
France
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Contact Author: Benjamin Sehene
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Favorite Links
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Benjamin Sehene:: Rwanda et Littérature
Official website: with biography and bibliography including photo gallery as well as short history of Rwanda
Le Piège Ethnique
Revue de Presse du livre Le Piège Ethnique.
Rwanda's Collective Amnesia
Article in the UNESCO Courier by Benjamin Sehene
Letter from Europe
Monthly on-line article on African politics
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