The Oldest Orphan Prayer M. Madueke a series in which we

a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by some of its most acclaimed authors

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The Oldest Orphan Prayer M. Madueke a series in which weTierno Monnembo was among the African authors invited to Rwanda after the 1994 Tutsi Hutu massacre to "write genocide into memory." In his novel The Oldest Orphan, that is precisely what Monnembo does, to devastating effect. Powerful testimony to an unspeakable historical reality, this story is told by an adolescent on death row in a prison in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Dispassionately, almost cynically, the teenager Faustin tells his tale,