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Ak'Iwacu — Traditional Tools of Burundi (Jimmy Gildas Dusabimana)
An illustrated inventory of the tools modernity nearly erased. The bow, the winnowing basket, the grinding stone — each one told, not just drawn.
Some objects go unnoticed simply because we've stopped seeing them at all — replaced, forgotten, pushed to the back of a courtyard. « Ak'Iwacu » brings them back one by one: the tools generations of Burundians shaped by hand to farm, hunt, prepare food and build, before imported plastic and metal reshaped the domestic landscape.
What the book puts back in your hands
- Careful, colourful illustrations, faithful to how each tool was actually used
- The name of every object and its precise purpose, never a vague caption
- A material memory of rural Burundi, before it fades entirely
Jimmy Gildas Dusabimana has produced something close to a museum on paper — useful for anyone who wants to show their children what their grandparents once held, and for anyone in the diaspora looking for something that leads straight back to the home hill.
Available now on Akaguriro — order it before it sells out.
- Author: Jimmy Gildas Dusabimana
- Theme: traditional Burundian tools, illustrated
- Language: French
- Pages: 58
- Weight: 130 g
