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This article introduces the Rwandan Stories of Change research project, and uses data collected jointly with the Aegis Trust to argue for the value of in-depth studies on individual Rwandans’ positive growth. It seeks to explore the place of individual growth in discussions of post-genocide Rwanda by examining the communitarian culture and policies of present day Rwanda. The article uses discourse analysis of a sample of testimonies to analyse indicators of individual growth alongside an asse...

First paragraph: It is not often that a major poet is rediscovered by modern Scottish literary scholarship. The exhaustive productions of publication societies from the Bannatyne Club to the Scottish Text Society mean that whilst critical literature may remain thin on the ground, editions of early modern Scottish texts are comparatively abundant; figures such as William Fowler, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Sir Thomas Urquhart, and Arthur Johnston had all received more or less adequate an...

This was an intermediary but vital period of cultural change. The young Scottish poets of the late sixties (including D.M. Black, Alan Jackson, Kenneth White; Robin Fulton, and the first appearances of Tom Leonard and Liz Lochhead) heralded this new spirit –very much of its time– and took us beyond the familiar arguments for and against the use of Scots, beyond the Renaissance agendas of national psychology and identity.