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Indôto Mu Bahĭzi Bahĭre — A Vision Among the Hunters (Mânirakíza Zénon, 2023)
A hunter, spear and bow in hand, a black silhouette against blue. Mânirakíza Zénon summons ancestral figures to speak about a present that hasn't finished hunting its own demons.
The cover strikes with its graphic restraint: a stylised hunter, spear in hand, bow drawn, cut out in black against an almost electric turquoise background. « Indôto » — the dream, the vision — signals a text that doesn't stay purely concrete: it summons the imagery of hunters from another time to shed light on something larger.
The continuation of a patiently built body of work
Published in 2023, this book fits into the steady output of Mânirakíza Zénon, born in Kiganda in 1965 and known for calling out, book after book, the injustices and hardships of Burundian society. The symbol engraved on the cover — a stylised crescent, aligned arrows — recurs from one book to the next, like a signature you come to recognise across his bibliography.
For those who've already read Mânirakíza Zénon, or for anyone wanting a different way in — order it today.
- Author: Mânirakíza Zénon
- Year: 2023
- Language: Kirundi
- Pages: 249
- Weight: 342 g
