God Sleeps in Rwanda made it clear that women’s lives in Rwanda are incredibly different from women’s lives elsewhere. Here, the women hastily acclimated themselves to a changed society while trying to move beyond the shadow of terrible, terrible tragedy. They put it on themselves to take up the opportunities that the country’s swift demographic shift presented. With that, the women keep forever-altered Rwanda from being altered solely through devastation. They embarked on an unflinching wave of progression, which can hopefully continue to develop and grow. I think that the film presents Black female subjectivity, considering the roles that these women have undertaken, and the depiction of their humanity in the face of struggle.
Yet, while women take on bigger societal roles and hold a majority in Rwandan parliament, it hasn’t kept lingering issues from looming large. Genocide survivors still have issues getting access to health care. Statistics from the Rwandan Men’s Resource Centre in 2011 show that gender-based violence is still a tremendous issue, having been experienced by 57.2% of the over 1300 women included in the study. 60% of families living in poverty are headed by women. Women in Rwanda are still nowhere near an enviable situation, and don’t get as much attention as they deserve.
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