The schoolgirls who warned of Rwanda's genocide
Katori Hall's play Our Lady of Kibeho is the story of three friends who insisted that they were visited by the Virgin Mary and told of the horror that lay aheadThe 16-year-old schoolgirl Alphonsine Mumureke said she was in the cafeteria of the Catholic boarding school Kibeho College, Rwanda, when she heard a voice "soft as air and sweeter than music". She saw a beautiful woman " neither white nor black " floating abo…