Kibogo

Kibogo is familial storytelling and community gossip. It is a story shared through muted whispers and behind teeth desperately stuffing down a cackle. A hand-me-down that survives in spite of. It’s a story told four times, each time adapted for the Rwandan society it finds itself in. Beginning with the brutal famine of the 1940s, when villagers from a mountainside town look to the Belgians, and Jesus, and some even to Kibogo, to bring the rain. Scholastique Mukasonga pens a masterful fable filled with biting satire, reflections on the narratives that make society, the power they hold, and a sneaking belief in the fantastic.