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    The Skin of Lions: Rwandan Folk Tales and Fables
    The Skin of Lions: Rwandan Folk Tales and Fables
    The Skin of Lions: Rwandan Folk Tales and Fables
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    The Skin of Lions: Rwandan Folk Tales and Fables

    By Gabriel Constans

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    This is a picture book collection from Rwanda. At one time all of the children in this book lived on the streets. The stories are from their personal experiences, traditional folk tales or creative imaginations. They continue a thousand-year-old oral tradition and speak for all of those that have been silenced.

    Author royalties go to the Rwanda Orphan's Project at www.rwandanorphansproject.org.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGabriel Constans
    Release dateJan 31, 2010
    ISBN9781452303130
    The Skin of Lions: Rwandan Folk Tales and Fables
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    Gabriel Constans

    Gabriel is a freelance journalist who has written for magazines and newspapers in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa and has 12 books published in the U.S, including The Skin of Lions - Rwandan Folk Tales, Buddha's Wife and Luscious Chocolate Smoothies. He is the father of 5 children and 1 grandchild and an advisor to the Rwandan Orphans Project. I can be contacted at edit@gogabriel.com. Sites of interest are (www.gogabriel.com) (www.buddhaswife.com) and (www.rwandanorphansproject.org).

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      The Skin of Lions - Gabriel Constans

      INTRODUCTION

      At one time, all of the children in this book lived on the streets of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Their parents died from the genocide in 1994 or from the AIDS pandemic. They have been given new life and hope at an orphanage called El Shaddai. The stories that follow are taken from their personal experiences, traditional folk tales or unique creative imaginations. The children range in age from ten to nineteen and tell tales for all generations. They share their words from a thousand-year-old oral tradition and speak for all those that have been silenced.

      Reader’s note: In Kinyarwanda, the native tongue of Rwanda, family names are capitalized and written before first names.

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