David Mwambari. Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 336 pp. $83. Hardback. ISBN: 9780190942304.

Narrative in Post-Genocide Rwanda" In three decades since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, scholars-mostly from outside the country-have produced a vast body of literature on the causes and consequences of the devastating violence.With this masterful book, David Mwambari makes a vital contribution to this scholarship, both in terms of perspective and substance.As a Rwandan of mixed heritage who was a child during the genocide and subsequently lived outside the country for many years, Mwambari provides distinctive insights.He sets the tone in his foreword, "Self-Reflexivity: The Challenges and Opportunities of Researching One's Own Society," where he carefully explains his own "insider/outsider positionality" (x) and how it shapes the book.In addition to being an academic work, we learn a few pages later, the book is part autobiography and part therapy: