A Refugee For Life: Memoirs of Rwanda Genocide Survivor - Softcover

Conrad, Abaho Gift

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933983280 ISBN 13: 9781933983288

Publisher: G. L. Design, 2021

Synopsis

Our Musical Ambassador in Uganda, Abaho Gift Conrad, was raised in the local refugee camps. He was able to see how people who sing, drum and dance together are less likely to fight with one another so he joined Musical Ambassadors of Peace. This autobiography contains the true story of Abaho's escape from the Rwanda genocide at age one and a half. His mother had hidden him in a vegetable garden just before being hacked to death along with the rest of his family and neighbors. He was found and rescued by a woman whom he thought for years to be his mother. She carried him and herself to safety in Uganda where they made a life in a camp. Eventually she revealed to him that she was an aunt, not a mother. Abaho succeeded in becoming multi-lingual and has written this autobiography in English so that a wider audience can know of the efforts being made on behalf of underprivileged refugees. Abaho describes many of these efforts and re-affirms his personal desire to devote his life to the well-being of fellow refugees.

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I was born in 1992 in Gasabo, Rwanda from where the 1994 Rwandan genocide emerged.At a tender age of one and a half, all my parents and relatives were butchered. I don't actually know how I survived the machetes. I wish I could remember life to perfection. I can't but my guardian angel, now a fellow refugee here in Uganda in this Rwamwanja camp, narrated to me a story about how she saved me by picking me from a sorghum garden and bringing me to Uganda. For some time I thought she was my mother. As a refugee sleeping on an empty stomach was the order of the day. But eventually, thank God, I scored well in school which attracted the Chairperson of the village to start paying for me first up to Diploma level and finally to Bachelors Degree.Now, I can no longer think about the world without crying about how lucky I have been: one child saved from dying of either starvation or wild animals in that sorghum garden long ago. Apparently someone thought that I could survive, testify and give hope to my fellow underprivileged refugees. How I wish I could give a thousand chances to such people all over the world.I wish all the underprivileged children of the world could go to sleep without empty stomachs and gun shots. I am just one person who now needs to help my fellow Underprivileged people begin to realize that guns, bullets, war, diseases and despair are not the things that define us as human beings. Lest they forget, it is not the government nor the circumstances that will change the future. It's just like one great politician once said: don't ask what your country can do for you, rather ask what you can do for your country.I wish to share my experiences, my knowledge, my hard work, my education and my suffering at zero cost for the betterment of my fellow brothers and sisters in marginalized communities.I realized one thing: that money is not the beginning nor the end of the world. If you have ever experienced despair in life, you will wish to help people to realize that it's better to help the community rather than just being a self seeker. Let's work together for the betterment of all underprivileged people.I will never rest until my fellow underprivileged people have food, medicine and hope.

Edition details

• Publisher: G. L. Design
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933983280
• ISBN 13: 9781933983288
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38