Nkundagusoma Bookclub

🎉 Book Giveaway 🎉

We are giving away 2 copies of "Gahugu gato" by Gaël Faye, to thank y'all who read with us every day. Check this out ( https://t.co/0UEbl7vcal) to stand a chance of winning!

Currently reading "Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Conversations with the president of Rwanda by Francois Soudan

"My dream is for a truly stable Rwanda—stable in every
aspect. A Rwanda that is prosperous, has achieved a standard
of living equal to that of countries who take their standard of
living for granted. And for Rwanda to stop needing to be the
beneficiary of others’ generosity. I want Rwanda to be in a
place where instead of receiving from others we can give to
others, helping them to achieve self-sufficiency and their own
prosperity. That is my dream. A Rwanda that is prosperous,
stable, Rwandans who are happy and proud to be Rwandans." _H.E. Paul Kagame (Pg 98)

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This February, we are reading 𝐾𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒, 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎 𝑏𝑦 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑖𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑎𝑛. This is an amazing conversation with a man who is a brilliant thinker, who has the interest of his nation at heart, and who is succeeding at a task most would consider to be impossible; to develop a coherent and prosperous society.

“I believe my purpose is to bring joy to people, to make them laugh, and to share my story to help them. To show people that no matter what, they matter, and they can succeed. No matter how bad things go, no matter how dark your life is, there is a reason for it. You can find beauty in it, and you can get better. I know, because I’ve done it. That’s why my comedy so often comes from my pain. In my life, and I hope in yours, I want us to grow roses out of the poop.”
― Tiffany Haddish, The Last Black Unicorn

We're currently reading this!

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we are currently reading "Broken places & outer spaces" by Nnedi Okorafor.

Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi’s lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan—something a simple operation would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery to find she can’t move her legs, her entire sense of self begins to waver. Confined to a hospital bed for months, unusual things begin to happen. Psychedelic bugs crawl her hospital walls; strange dreams visit her nightly. Nnedi begins to put these experiences into writing, conjuring up strange, fantastical stories. What Nnedi discovers during her confinement would prove to be the key to her life as a successful science fiction author: In science fiction, when something breaks, something greater often emerges from the cracks.

In Broken Places & Outer Spaces, Nnedi takes the reader on a journey from her hospital bed deep into her memories, from her painful first experiences with racism as a child in Chicago to her powerful visits to her parents’ hometown in Nigeria. From Frida Kahlo to Mary Shelly, she examines great artists and writers who have pushed through their limitations, using hardship to fuel their work. Through these compelling stories and her own, Nnedi reveals a universal truth: What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths—far greater than when we were unbroken.

Join us as we read this guidebook for anyone eager to understand how their limitations might actually be used as a creative springboard, Broken Places & Outer Spaces is an inspiring look at how to open up new windows in your mind.

We're currently reading "Travelers" by Helon Habila.

A Nigerian graduate student who has made his home in America knows what it means to strike out for new shores. When his wife proposes that he accompany her to Berlin, where she has been awarded a prestigious arts fellowship, he has his reservations: “I knew every departure is a death, every return a rebirth. Most changes happen unplanned, and they always leave a scar.” In Berlin, Habila’s central character finds himself thrown into contact with a community of African immigrants and refugees whose lives previously seemed distant from his own, but to which he is increasingly drawn. The walls between his privileged, secure existence and the stories of these other Africans on the move soon crumble, and his sense of identity begins to dissolve as he finds that he can no longer separate himself from others’ horrors, or from Africa.

Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear or hope.

Join us as we read "Not my time to die" by Yolande Mukagasana.


Yolande Mukagasana is a Rwandan nurse and mother of three who likes wearing jeans and designer glasses. She runs her own clinic in Nyamirambo and is planning a party for her wedding anniversary. But when genocide starts everything changes. Targeted because she's a successful Tutsi woman, she is separated from her family and flees for her life.

This gripping memoir describes the betrayals of friends and help that comes from surprising places. Quick-witted and courageous, Yolande never loses hope that she will find her children alive.

February book 📚

The old drift by Namwali Serpell

On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the story of a small African nation, told by a swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis.

In 1904, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black, white, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass, their lives – their triumphs, errors, losses and hopes – form a symphony about what it means to be human.

From a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts, microdrones and viral vaccines – this novel sweeps over the years and the globe.

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