INTERPRETING EXTREMISTS' HATRED IN BOUBACAR BORIS DIOP'S MURAMBI: LE LIVRE DES OSSEMENTS

Abstract

In retrospect, Diop narrates the Rwandan genocide which serves as a corpus for the study of extremist's hatred. This effort examined extremist hatred in Murambi, with the aim of understanding the triggers and process. Having understood that the task cannot be accomplished with a single theory, the study adopted J. M. Berger's « Linkages and bundles » (8-9) to demonstrate the process of incitation and Daniel Kahneman « Automatic and deliberative thinking » to interpret extremist hatred. The article has demonstrated extremist hatred as an ideology which may begin in different ways, including incitation which triggers the automatic thinking through the exploitation of conspiracy theories, and force. The actors of this instigation will then be radicalised from suspicion, to the formation of and belief in linkages and bundles, then the construction of ideologies that kill the conscience and legitimizes hatred, until it metamorphoses into violent extremism.