'Forbidden for dogs and blacks' was written on a dance club entrance in Belgium, where then 18-year-old Georges Kamanayo was stopped from entering. He had not seen the post, and his other 11 friends had entered before him. 'Not you. Can't you read what is mentioned here?' the doorkeeper asked.
"Forbidden for dogs and blacks" was written on a dance club entrance in Belgium, where then 18-year-old Georges Kamanayo was stopped from entering. He had not seen the post, and his other 11 friends had entered before him."Not you. Can't you read what is mentioned here?" the doorkeeper asked. His friends would never find out because of how loud it was inside, so he decided to go back home.
In Rwanda, Save mission, which was located in present-day Huye District, was one of the schools. It was run by the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa. At least 300 children were taken from the school, adding to thousands of others including those from Burundi and DR Congo. As the children were torn away from their families, only a few were truly"adopted". Many were put in orphanages and foster families, who did not always take good care of them. This was combined with the suffering of forced separation, as they were even prevented from searching for their families when they grew up.
As he grew up, his life revolved around coming back to Rwanda to see his mother. He eventually became a TV journalist and after his first documentary in 1974, he made it clear to his employers that he wanted to cover not just Rwanda, but Africa in general. He was hoping to use the chance to see his mother again.
"She was in the same neighbourhood, but in a different place, and she was completely alone. She had also become blind because of a disease she had contracted," Kamanayo narrated. Today, Kamanayo lives in Shyogwe, a small town located in Muhanga District in Rwanda's Southern Province. He works with the locals in agriculture, on the land that was previously owned by his father.
Indeed, we may never know the stories of those mothers and their families, whose children were legally referred to as"abandoned" and later forcefully taken away from them, some never to be seen again.
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