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1. Volume 22, Issue 2 (September 2022)pp. 1–24PDF of Colonial Othering, Fractured Identity, and the Ethics of Reconciliation, A Re-reading of Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Hearts of Rwanda.

   Colonial Othering, Fractured Identity, and the Ethics of Reconciliation, A Re-reading of Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Hearts of Rwanda.

   Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke, Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Goodluck Chinenye Kadiri

   Rwanda through the interconnected concepts of colonial Othering, fractured identity, dehumanisation, memory, and reconciliation. It argues that Tadjo’s representation of the 1994 Rwandan genocide challenges explanations that reduce … Paul Ricoeur on memory, the study finally argues that Tadjo locates the possibility of reconciliation in the confrontation of historical truth, the preservation of collective memory, and the rejection