Ice cream is new to Rwanda. Selling and eating ice cream is not part of the Rwandan culture. The Butare shop employs nine women. They spend their free time practicing with Ingoma Nshya, Rwanda’s first and only female drumming group. The musicians are Hutu and Tutsi women. Some are survivors of the 1994 genocide, when almost a million Tutsis and Hutus were killed. Some members of Ingoma Nshya are widows, some orphans. Ingabire’s father, two siblings and many cousins were killed in the genocide. “When I’m drumming, it gives me power because we’re still alive and survivors,” she says.
What is common to all the members of Ingoma Nshya?
They are all Hutu and Tutsi women They are all employees of the Butare ice cream shop They are all survivors of the 1994 genocide They all like ice cream