Clemantine Wamariya’s The Girl Who Smiled Beads Is a Devastating, Beautiful Memoir of Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

Clemantine Wamariya first came to our attention in 2015 with her essay in Matter titled “Everything Is Yours, Everything Is Not Yours” and co-written with Elizabeth Weilis. The essay was featured in our reflection on the fictionalisation of violence, and it is exciting to see that it had always been part of a book-in-progress. The Girl […]