Life After Violence: A People's Story of Burundi

Burundi has recently emerged from twelve years of devastating civil war. Its economy has been destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. In this book, the voices of ordinary Burundians are heard for the first time.

Farmers, artisans, traders, mothers, soldiers, and students talk about the past and the future, war and peace, their hopes for a better life and their relationships with each other and the state. Young men in particular, often seen as the cause of violenc…