Kibeho, Rwanda, 28 November 1981. "" N Nyina wa Jambo "-" I am the Mother of the Word ". These are the words that the lady dressed in white gives to Alphonsine, a young student. Now here is a sanctuary, in a small village in the hills on the border with Burundi, and every year pilgrims come walking for days in the rain. January 12, 1982, Our Lady also appears to Nathalie, and then Marie Claire. The voice began to spread, and Kibeho became the heart of African Christianity, recognized by the Vatican, like Lourdes and Fatima. On August 15, 1982 twenty thousand people came to Kibheo. There were radio and television stations, ready to tell the message that the lady would have given to the seers to celebrate the Assumption. But unexpectedly for seven hours there was a long tale of blood, horror, bloodshed, decapitated bodies and corpses left to rot in the street. A vision of the genocide. And in Kibheo, in 94, during the 100 days that shook Rwanda, ten thousand Tutsis were massacred in the village church, the next year, eight thousand Hutu, arrived in the square of the apparition in search of protection, were killed. The vision of 12 years before had come true.
Made on assignment for Vanity Fair, text by Tamara Ferrari
The Black Madonna
The Black Madonna
Kibeho, Rwanda, 28 November 1981. "" N Nyina wa Jambo "-" I am the Mother of the Word ". These are the words that the lady dressed in white gives to Alphonsine, a young student. Now here is a sanctuary, in a small village in the hills on the border with Burundi, and every year pilgrims come walking for days in the rain. January 12, 1982, Our Lady also appears to Nathalie, and then Marie Claire. The voice began to spread, and Kibeho became the heart of African Christianity, recognized by the Vatican, like Lourdes and Fatima. On August 15, 1982 twenty thousand people came to Kibheo. There were radio and television stations, ready to tell the message that the lady would have given to the seers to celebrate the Assumption. But unexpectedly for seven hours there was a long tale of blood, horror, bloodshed, decapitated bodies and corpses left to rot in the street. A vision of the genocide. And in Kibheo, in 94, during the 100 days that shook Rwanda, ten thousand Tutsis were massacred in the village church, the next year, eight thousand Hutu, arrived in the square of the apparition in search of protection, were killed. The vision of 12 years before had come true.
Made on assignment for Vanity Fair, text by Tamara Ferrari
