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Why Did We Stop Growing Tall ?
| Label | Glitterbeat – GBLP049 |
| Series | Hidden Musics – 4 |
| Format | Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| Barcode | 4030433604915 |
| Country | Germany |
| Released | 17 Aug 2017 |
| Genre | Folk, World, & Country |
| Style | African |
| A1 | Sida Ni Mbi (AIDS is Bad) | 00:33 |
| A2 | Rwanda Nziza (Beautiful Rwanda) | 2:47 |
| A3 | Igira Hino (Come Closer) | 1:04 |
| A4 | Umuyange (Protect the Environment) | 2:44 |
| A5 | Urwanikamiheto (War Song) | 4:41 |
| A6 | Umwana W’umuhanda (The Child from the Streets) | 1:47 |
| A7 | Nzagukorera (I Will Serve) | 3:39 |
| B1 | Umutesi (I’ll Follow You Until You Kill Me) | 3:51 |
| B2 | Cyabusiko (Night Streetwalker, Who Will Care for My Children?) | 3:30 |
| B3 | Nyirandugu (The Hard Worker) | 2:50 |
| B4 | Ihorere (Stop Crying Now) | 4:03 |
| B5 | Why Did We Stop Growing Tall? | 3:02 |
Producer – Ian Brennan
Gatefold cover.
In a land where men lead each other hand-in-hand, but homophobia runs rampant, we drove off the main road and miles up the ridge to one of the pockets hardest hit by the genocide— a place where the residents stopped waving back. An area so very isolated, it was as if the genocide had never ended. Topping that, we were traveling this dirt trail with two Tutsis in an area where they had recently been “hunting Rwandans,” and a sense of discomfort was tangible, as if an invisible line had been crossed and we’d entered ibiwa (“problems”)
In a land where men lead each other hand-in-hand, but homophobia runs rampant, we drove off the main road and miles up the ridge to one of the pockets hardest hit by the genocide— a place where the residents stopped waving back. An area so very isolated, it was as if the genocide had never ended. Topping that, we were traveling this dirt trail with two Tutsis in an area where they had recently been “hunting Rwandans,” and a sense of discomfort was tangible, as if an invisible line had been crossed and we’d entered ibiwa (“problems”)
Barcode – 4030433604915