Carrying Divine: My Rwanda Genocide Survivor Story

In April 1994, the Hutu government in Rwanda decided that the minority Tutsi tribe was a threat and should be wiped out completely. Henriette Ngenga was twenty-eight years old and pregnant with her fifth child, a baby girl named Divine. This young Tutsi mother was facing a government-mandated massacre with four children between the ages of one and eight in her care. Hunted by men with machetes, tortured in a prison, and beaten savagely, she felt her daughter writhing from starvation inside her womb, while privately rejoicing that there was still any movement at all. This is one mother’s story of love, terror, faith, and survival. Everything you are about to read is true.


“I told God if I survived, I would tell my story…our story. Twenty years later, the time has come.”