 | FAMA, a new play by Ery Nzaramba is a look at the struggle for individual identity through conflict and at the history of the development of East Africa through the lens of war. The (hi)story of a fictional country from its colonisation to the throes of independence and a fratricidal conflict, and the story of a former prince caught in the middle, FAMA is Ery's attempt at exploring and questioning the events that have defined the recent history of his homeland, Rwanda. | Read my articles about researching the play, meeting Koffi Kwahulé (author of the original play) and news about the project. Visit and like the facebook page. |
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Koffi Kwahulé is the author of the original play FAMA. I met him several times in Paris, between 15th and 21st October 2012. "...I would personally find it too 'brutal' to hear the words Hutu and Tutsi in a play. I would only be watching the play through the prism of what I know or have heard about the Genocide. If there were another heart to the play I wouldn't get it. In other words, it would be too distracting. When I wrote Fama I was thinking (and writing) about the whole region (of West Africa), not just Ivory Coast. If you think it that way, and write about the region of East Africa that includes Rwanda instead, it might help..." (KK) |
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RR is Professor in the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. I met him in his office in London. "... the plan was to transfer governance to the kingship until it became clear the majority of the population didn't want a monarchy any longer. So in 1958 they allowed civilians to create (with strict rules) “political parties”. That small door became floodgates and soon Parmehutu, Aprosoma and Unar were squabbling for power with Parmehutu coming on top and the monarchy being abolished in 1959 (all before independence in 1962)..." (RR) |
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Dr AC is a researcher at the University of Namur, in Belgium. She specialises in colonial history and wrote a paper about Rwanda of 1920 – 1940. I met her at her offices at the Notre Dame Faculty of Letters and Philosophy in the heart of Namur. "... there wasn't such thing as an education level in order to select their administrators/subordinates from the locals so they used what they perceived as an already established class system and formalised it. The nobles and the rich were to be those who administer the country: the Tutsis. The rest, the Hutus (and Twas). ..." (AC) |
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 End of last year (2012) I wrote and directed the short film THE BLUES LOVER. It was shot on cinema camera RED Epic and is currently in post production (Jan 2013). Visit and like its facebook page if you like it. "A woman's body lies in her living room. A busker who's not supposed to be there. An absent husband." THE BLUES LOVER is a murder thriller, a why-dunnit where The Usual Suspects meet Fatal Attraction. |
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