“Murambi” is the theatrical adaptation of the novel by Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop: “Murambi, the Book of Bones”, a masterful work on the last genocide of the 20th century, the massacre of the Tutsi by the Hutu. We will follow the tragic story of the character imagined by Boubacar Boris Diop, Cornelius Uvimana. After eight years of exile far from Rwanda, he returned to the country with the desire to testify and write a play on the genocide. As his macabre discoveries progress, he will give it up, realizing that a genocide is not a story like any other. He will discover that his Hutu father, Doctor Joseph Karekezi, is one of the main genocide perpetrators and that he had his wife and his two children murdered. As his friend Jessica calls him, Cornelius is now “the ideal Rwandan”, both victim and culprit. It is the child of complexity, of a knot that is both intimate and political.

This show will be created in Kigali, in March 2024, 30 years after the genocide. It is a multidisciplinary collaboration of artists from Rwanda, Senegal and France. A convergence of views to shape a contemporary and universal tragedy aimed above all at young people. At the Dialaw Festival, we will present the reading of an abridged version of the adaptation.