![]() ![]() “As soon as the violence came to our village,” Dogon writes, “the stories of my childhood faded.” In their place is this radiant testimony to the losses suffered by all refugees, an arresting demand that we recognize the humanity of people the world over who have no choice but to leave their homes forever. In describing the most tragic and terrifying of circumstances, Dogon, working with coauthor Krajeski, creates sentences to describe the most tragic and terrifying of circumstances that are, without exception, elegant, arresting, and possessing a beauty that only a gifted truth-teller can attain. ![]() His survival, he notes more than once, is a miracle, but his story alone is not what makes this account so shockingly powerful. Attempts to return home led to Dogon being abandoned, imprisoned, and forced to serve as a child soldier. FirstYear and Common Reading Guide for Those We Throw away are Diamonds by Mondiant Dogon DIsCUssION QUesTIONs These questions can be posed to an entire class, given to small groups, used to initiate online discussions, etc. They eventually made it to the Gihembe camp in Rwanda, where they lived for the next two decades. When his family ran for their lives to escape the murderous Interahamwe militia, his baby sister died of starvation. As a young Bagogwe child, a Tutsi living in eastern Congo, he was swept up into the spiraling conflict that spilled out of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. ![]() The facts of Dogon’s life are stark and painful. ![]()
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