Meredith Shepard is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale University Council on African Studies. She received her PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. Her dissertation, “The Art of Reconciliation in Rwanda,” is currently being revised into a book project on genres of reconciliation that recur across global post-conflict literatures.
Meredith Shepard
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Trump’s “Radio Machete”
This year, Rwanda commemorates the 25th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi. Americans would do well to consider the sobering similarities between the Rwandan “hate radio,” or “Radio Machete”—which helped to incite that genocide—and President Trump’s tweets. This is not to say that Trump is marching the United States toward genocide, nor that hateful […]
