Meeting with Mr Jean de Dieu Mucyo Minister of Justice and Institutional Relations
Minister de Dieu Mucyo began with an anecdote from his school days. The teacher asked the class to stand in two lines face to face. He asked if they looked the same, the children laughed because they had the same life, traveled to the same school, wore the same clothes. The teacher told them they were not the same: he compared their heights and noses. Then the class was divided: long noses on one side, flat noses on the other. The children had not been aware of their ethnic identity. The teacher taught history from an ethnic point of view. After this incident the children no longer played together with banana leaf footballs.
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