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Art on the Road / Inema Art Center in Kigali by Bob Wood

Please go here to access Mr. Woods’ and Angelina’s Uganda / Rwanda 2015 Summer Travel series.

Tracking gorillas is all the rage now-a-days, for American travelers in East Africa.  And you know after talking with some folks who did it, treking through the jungle and up to a clan hideaway in hills of Uganda, it sounded pretty wild.  But with park entry fees, guide fees, gorilla fees, banana fees and every other fee imaginable – it cost em each over $1200 – for a one hour visit!

My Art from Rwanda – A Giant Ugandan Face – with shifty eyes

I’d rather buy art….

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Hotel Rwanda – The Movie. 

This is an extra credit assignment for SCI c/0 2015.  If you choose to do this assignment you may replace your low grade for the marking period.  You may not use this to cover the Fishline Timeline, or the Map Test.  All others are fair game.  I will grade it and replace the directed grade.  Please send Mr. Wood a Google Document for the assignment if you choose to do it.  Assignment is due posted to Google Docs for credit by 11:59 PM on Sunday May 10. 

For 100 days in 1994 a genocidal mass murder of between 500,000 and a million human  beings, 20% of the country’s total population, took place in Rwanda.  A majority of those people, nearly all Tutsi’s, were executed by hand, by machete, in one of the most brutal massacres of modern history.  While the perpetrators of the violence were primarily Hutu para military groups, Rwandan citizens also  took part in the violence .  Meanwhile the West stood mute.  European and U.S. politicians debated the definition of genocide as FM radio stations in Rwanda blasted guidelines for the killings.  The United Nations was useless in defending local Rwandans, serving only to stand and watch and occasionally usher white Westerners from the carnage.  The events of the 1994 Rwandan genocide was one of the darkest events in modern world history.

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