Benjamin Sehene

Benjamin Sehene (born 1959) is a Rwandan author whose work primarily focuses on questions of identity and the events surrounding the Rwandan genocide. He spent much of his life in Canada and lives in France.

Early life and education Benjamin Sehene was born in Kigali, Rwanda, in 1959 to a Tutsi family.

His family fled Rwanda owing to ethnic tensions and massacres of Tutsi people in 1963 for Uganda. They were lucky to escape owing to Benjamin's older brother, who was working for United States embassy in Kigali at the time and was able to evacuate the family.

Benjamin grew up and went to school in Uganda.

Sehene also contributes articles to the online newspaper rue89, and is a member of PEN International.

Residence In 2002 Sehene was living in Canada; by October 2010 he was back in France.

Publications Le Piège Ethnique(The Ethnic Trap), Éditions Dagorno, Paris, (1999) Rwanda's collective amnesia, in The UNESCO Courier, (1999). Un sentiment d'insécurité, Play, Paris, 2001 "Dead Girl Walking" (short story) Le Feu sous la soutane (Fire under the Cassock), L'Esprit Frappeur, Paris (2005) "Ta Race!" (Short story), Éditions Vents d'Ailleurs, [La Roque d'Anthéron], France, 2006 Die ethnische Falle Wespennest 2006