{"id":35123,"date":"2017-06-13T14:50:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/reb-suspends-book-undermining-genocide\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T11:55:22","slug":"reb-suspends-book-undermining-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/reb-suspends-book-undermining-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"REB suspends book undermining genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Education Board (REB) has stopped the use of a text book {{\u2018General Studies and Communication Skills\u2019}} meant for senior four syllabus, saying it is dotted with mistakes. The instructions to suspend usage of the book are contained in a letter from REB to district education officers.}  <\/p>\n<p>The said book was published by an Indian publishing house, LAXMI, in 2016 and was distributed to schools one month ago. <\/p>\n<p>REB Director General, Janvier Gasana has told IGIHE that they have suspended the use of the book over huge mistakes which mislead students. <\/p>\n<p>Gasana explained the book is faulted for being authored by people who never considered Rwandan history, where, in some parts, the book depicts the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi as a civil war. He said that the government of Rwanda can\u2019t tolerate courses undermining genocide in schools.<\/p>\n<p>The book also indicates that dowry is an expensive load for boys which REB considers discrediting Rwanda\u2019s culture because the latter is a reward other than a cost. <\/p>\n<p>The suspension follows previous typing errors.  REB has also revealed a plan of requesting Rwanda Public Procurement Authority to offer tenders of writing books to Rwandans.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20750 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/33-img_7972-2-c9f24-2.jpg\" alt=\"REB Director General, Janvier Gasana\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Education Board (REB) has stopped the use of a text book {{\u2018General Studies and Communication Skills\u2019}} meant for senior four syllabus, saying it is dotted with mistakes. The instructions to suspend usage of the book are contained in a letter from REB to district education officers.} The said book was published by an Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35123"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35123"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}