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Music From PRX, this is Songwriter, the podcast that turns stories into songs.

My name is Ben Arthur.

As you may know, if you've been listening to the last several episodes, season six is made

possible by a grant from Templeton World Charity Foundation and is oriented around elements

of human flourishing. As part of this work with Templeton, I was invited to take part in a

conference in Kigali, Rwanda, and I knew if I would be there, I'd want to record an episode,

but I wasn't at all sure where to start. So when I had an opportunity to meet Freddie Mutangwa

when he was in New York City for a few days, I jumped at the chance. Freddie is the CEO of the EGES Trust,

which is the organization that built the Kigali Genocide

Memorial that tells the story of the Rwandan genocide and memorializes the more than 250,000

Tutsis who were killed in Kigali. When we met, I asked Freddie who the Rwandan author or storyteller was that I should invite to take part, and he immediately said, hope, Azeda.

With that settled, I invited Freddy to dinner at my house if he had time while he was in town.

And it was only as I was cooking dinner that night that I realized I needed to interview Freddie as well.

So when he arrived, I asked and he agreed.

A few days later, I sent an edited version of the interview to Hope, who sent me in return some related poems.

Hope and I decided to mix these poems in with Freddy's story, and I added some music as well.

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