Draft:Annick Kayitesi-Jozan

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Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, born in 1979 in Rwanda, is a French-speaking author and survivor of the Tutsi genocide.

Biography[edit]

In April 1994, Annick Kayitesi-Jozan lost a part of her family to a massacre by Hutu killers.[1] Her Tutsi relatives were in Butare, and had taken refuge in the infirmary of a school where her mother worked. Militiamen murdered her mother in the schoolyard.[2] Her brother Aimé, aged 9, her sister Aline, aged 16, and her two cousins were taken in a truck to a site where they were attacked with machetes and killed, with the exception of Aline, whose lifeless body was abandoned by the militiamen.

Annick Kayitesi-Jozan was not taken with the rest of her family, for reasons that remain unclear, probably because neighbors who were accomplices of the killers wanted to keep her as a servant.[3]

Taken in by the NGO Terre des Hommes, along with her sister Aline, she was then exfiltrated to France, where she experienced anti-black racism.[4] She first lived with foster families, and was subjected to an attempted rape by the father of one of these foster families, a case that was tried in the circuit court.[5]

She studied political science, obtained a post-graduate diploma and then went on to study psychology.[6] She obtained refugee status and, in 2005, French nationality.[7] She has a son by a Rwandan born in exile in Uganda, whom she met during her temporary return to her native Rwanda, and a daughter by a Frenchman, her husband, publisher Raphaël Jozan.[8] Since 2015, she has lived in Uzbekistan, where her husband heads the French Development Agency (AFD).[9]

Literary work[edit]

Annick Kayitesi-Jozan has published two accounts of her experiences during the genocide in Rwanda, and of her journey in France. In his review of Même Dieu ne veut pas s'en mêler, Florent Piton underlines the centrality of the theme of self-reconstruction, but adds that this autobiography is "a far cry from the soothing rhetoric of resilience", insofar as the traces of trauma remain very present.[10]

Activism[edit]

She helped file a complaint against the Canal+ channel following a 2013 comedy skit "supposed to make people laugh by mocking children cut up with machetes during the genocide in Rwanda."[11] In this bit, a character sang: "Maman est en haut, coupée en morceaux, papa est en bas, il lui manque les bras" ("Mommy's upstairs, cut into pieces, daddy's downstairs, missing his arms," a reference to an innocent childish song).[12] According to the newspaper Libération, this action encouraged the adoption of an amendment to the law on the offense of negationism, which since 2017 has punished denial of the genocide of the Tutsis of Rwanda.[13]

She testifies in the documentary Tuez-les tous ! co-directed by Raphaël Glucksmann.[14]

She has founded the "Études sans frontières" association, in order to promote the access to schooling for genocide orphans.[15]

In 2017, she published an appeal to the President of the French Republic in Libération, asking him to authorize the opening of the national archives relating to the Tutsi genocide, which would shed light on the extent of France's involvement in this tragedy.[16], [17]

Medals[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Génocide au Rwanda: «Des excuses de la France ne me ramèneront pas ma mère et mon frère»". La Voix du Nord (in French). 2021-05-26. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  2. ^ "Rescapée du génocide rwandais - Annick Kayitesi". parismatch.com (in French). 14 April 2014. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  3. ^ Malagardis, Maria. "Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, la danse des fantômes". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  4. ^ Piton Florent, « Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, Même Dieu ne veut pas s’en mêler », Afrique contemporaine, 2018/3-4 (N° 267-268), p. 289-291. DOI : 10.3917/afco.267.0289, lire en ligne
  5. ^ "Rescapée du génocide rwandais - Annick Kayitesi". parismatch.com (in French). 14 April 2014. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  6. ^ "Rescapée du génocide rwandais - Annick Kayitesi". parismatch.com (in French). 14 April 2014. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  7. ^ Malagardis, Maria. "Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, la danse des fantômes". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  8. ^ Piton Florent, « Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, Même Dieu ne veut pas s’en mêler », Afrique contemporaine, 2018/3-4 (N° 267-268), p. 289-291. DOI : 10.3917/afco.267.0289, lire en ligne
  9. ^ Malagardis, Maria. "Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, la danse des fantômes". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  10. ^ Piton Florent, « Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, Même Dieu ne veut pas s’en mêler », Afrique contemporaine, 2018/3-4 (N° 267-268), p. 289-291. DOI : 10.3917/afco.267.0289, lire en ligne
  11. ^ Malagardis, Maria. "Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, la danse des fantômes". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  12. ^ "Rescapée du génocide rwandais - Annick Kayitesi". parismatch.com (in French). 14 April 2014. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  13. ^ Malagardis, Maria. "Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, la danse des fantômes". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  14. ^ "Rescapée du génocide rwandais - Annick Kayitesi". parismatch.com (in French). 14 April 2014. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  15. ^ "En sol majeur - Annick Kayitesi-Jozan". RFI (in French). 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  16. ^ "Génocide au Rwanda: «Des excuses de la France ne me ramèneront pas ma mère et mon frère»". La Voix du Nord (in French). 2021-05-26. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  17. ^ Kayitesi-Jozan, Annick. "Si ma mère devait rester cafard". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-23.

Works[edit]

  • Nous existons encore, Michel Lafon, 2004
  • Même Dieu ne veut pas s’en mêler, Seuil, 2017

Bibliography[edit]

Category:Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Category:Rwandan refugees Category:Refugees in France Category:French-language writers Category:French women writers Category:Rwandan women writers Category:WikiProject Africa articles Category:Articles with authority control information

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