Kwibuka23: Uwamahoro’s appeal to world leaders
“Today I have the honor to speak for people who decided that their pain would not be in vain; a people who turned their hatred into sacred lessons for us to learn from, a people who believe that change does not come from thinking and acting the same. I speak for a people who took their broken fractions and patched them to make a whole, for the spaces between them that once were holes.”
Malaika Uwamahoro during her poetry presentation at the UN headquarters in New York, on April 7. (Courtesy)