Books by Dydine Umunyana Anderson
Dydine’s books are not just memoirs. They are testimony, argument, and invitation — to look honestly at what human beings are capable of, and to believe, nonetheless, in the possibility of healing.
“This book changed how I teach history.” — Educator, San Diego
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Embrace Life
“This book changed how I teach history.” — Educator, San Diego ✳︎ Embrace Life
Embrace Life
Original edition 2016 · Revised edition 2024
The story of surviving the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda — and of building a life, after.
Dydine was four years old when the killing began. Embrace Life is the account of what happened, what was lost, and what it took to choose to keep living. It is not a book about
Rwanda as a distant tragedy. It is a book about what one human being carries, and what she decided to do with it.
Abrazar la Vida
Spanish edition · Published 2024 Co-published by Artimaña Editorial and the Universidad de Cartagena
The Spanish edition of Embrace Life, brought to Colombia through a partnership withArtimaña Editorial and the Universidad de Cartagena. Presented at the Bogotá International
Book Fair (FILBo) in 2024 and distributed through independent bookstores across Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, and Buenaventura.
This edition represents something significant: a Rwandan survivor’s story, in Spanish, integrated into Colombia’s own process of reckoning with violence and rebuilding peace.
The conversations it sparked — in university auditoriums, in bookstores, in community halls— were proof that the human experience of loss and resilience crosses every border.
Still Here: A Survivor’s Case Against Hate
Forthcoming 2027
“Hate is not who we are. It is what we were taught. And anything that was taught can be
unlearned.”
Dydine’s next book is both an argument and a memoir — a survivor making the case, thirty
years later, that the path forward is not silence or forgetting, but the hard, necessary work
of telling the truth.
Still Here draws on three decades of lived experience, a decade of work in classrooms and
law enforcement spaces, and the stories of others who survived what the world tried to do
to them.
