Hope That Remains: Canadian Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide

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Every immigrant who comes to Canada has a story. This book captures ten of those stories and the remarkable resiliency and fortitude of the human spirit. In 1994 one of the worst genocides in human history took place in Rwanda--over one million people were killed in 100 days. Each chapter in The Hope that Remains focuses on a Rwandan survivor and t

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Christine Macgill is an educator specializing in genocide studies and a recipient of the Canadian Living Me to We Educator Award. Will Ferguson is a travel writer and novelist whose novel, 419, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His travel memoir, Road Trip Rwanda, was nominated for the 2016 Charles Taylor Prize. Rgine Uwibereyeho King is a professor of social work at University of Calgary and University of Manitoba.