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The School of the Ancestors — A Book of Everything (Bacinoni Diyodoni)
Under a great tree, elders pass on what they know to children sitting in a circle. School didn't always have walls — the school of the ancestors met in the shade, and it's told here.
The cover says it all before the first page: three elders seated beneath an enormous tree, children at their feet, hills stretching to the horizon behind them. « Ishule ry'abasokuru » — the school of the ancestors — wasn't a place you went to, it was a moment you shared, where wisdom passed through speech rather than a chalkboard.
A deliberate « book of everything »
As the title announces, this isn't a single-subject book: Bacinoni Diyodoni gathers here what one generation judged worth passing to the next, continuing his earlier collections in Kirundi, French and Swahili. He's a prolific author — a retired police colonel who now leads the organisation Ruhuka International — who made writing a second career after a lifetime in service to his country.
A book to recover, in Kirundi, the voice of elders exactly when it's missed most.
Order it today — it lends itself well to reading as a family.
- Author: Bacinoni Diyodoni
- Genre: popular wisdom collection
- Language: Kirundi
- Pages: 70
- Weight: 98 g
