Coming July 6th, the 25th anniversary of the end of Rwanda's Genocide and Civil/Interstate war!!!
Welcome to the webpage for RW-94: Reflections on Rwanda - the graphic novel by Christian Davenport and Darick Ritter! We could not be more excited to have you here. On the site you will find information about what the graphic novel is about, who we are, what is coming next, where we are talking about the project (in our blog @rw94) as well as a host of other things.
In the inaugural installment of "RW-94", we meet Christian Davenport: a somewhat naive idealistic, yet jaded, worldly African-American academic traveling for the first time to Rwanda in 2000 with intent to help. And, we meet Darick Ritter: an angst-ridden, artist extraordinaire who finds himself accompanying Christian on the journey to tell an unconventional story about violence, research, memory and identity.
In the second issue (Chapter 1), Christian dives or falls right into the mix in Kigali and learns a lesson or two about what went down, what's going down as well as what can and what cannot be discussed. Darick pushes to get some clarity and a clear direction for the comic.
Christian & Darick
In the inaugural installment of "RW-94", we meet Christian Davenport: a somewhat naive idealistic, yet jaded, worldly African-American academic traveling for the first time to Rwanda in 2000 with intent to help. And, we meet Darick Ritter: an angst-ridden, artist extraordinaire who finds himself accompanying Christian on the journey to tell an unconventional story about violence, research, memory and identity.
In the second issue (Chapter 1), Christian dives or falls right into the mix in Kigali and learns a lesson or two about what went down, what's going down as well as what can and what cannot be discussed. Darick pushes to get some clarity and a clear direction for the comic.
Christian & Darick