SOLVED. Collection of Short Stories about Children Struggles in regions of poverty/civil unrest [s]

[Amir]

I read this book around the summer 2017.
It was a collection of short stories that highlighted and had us appreciate our privilege.
SPOILERS










(view spoiler)[ I think this was the first short:
STORY 1: A family sends some of their children out to beg at the streets. First the parents have the two youngest children sniff some glue and use the fumes to keep them sedated. However, we learn that these effects are dangerously addictive, to the point that the parents try to take it in, if not for the grandfather stopping them.
STORY 2: The topic focuses on the street children who roam the streets, then return to their families at night. One of the children, the oldest sister, stops back home and announces that she will move to Hawaii with an older American tourist. From the POV of the younger brother, he notices that she has been using cheap makeup to remove and cover zits, which has wrecked further havoc on her skin. However, when he offers to come with her, his sister immediately refuses, saying that he needed to get an education. **Later, one of the family debtors comes in, drunk, and says that he will waive off all the debt. Overjoyed, the family excitedly gets the debtor to sign a piece of paper to that effect, using the back of the younger brother as a desk.**
STORY 3: Different from the other stories, it uses a second narrative. It describes a narrative between You and Best Friend, who are across the street and are unable to see each other due to rising religious tensions. There have also been mentions of the color of the windows. While "You" had a window painted blue, Best Friend's window colors was green. I think this was a historical reference to the Jewish/Muslim differentiation, but I need to fact check that
STORY 4: Takes place of a boy who hides his hand stump as he boards a bus escaping mob persecution. There are high tensions in his country, as he attempts to hide his accent and stump in order to avoid being persecuted by the people in the bus escaping with him. However, he is caught, and an old veteran attempts to defend him. The story ends with the bus stopping and throwing two bodies out of the vehicle, before moving on.
STORY 5: This story focuses in on child trafficking. Two children, a boy and a younger sister **lose their parents** and have an uncle take care of them. They eventually meet an Auntie, who takes them onto a boat and gives lavish meals. Then they are transitioned back to the Uncle, only his demeanor has changed. He holes them all up in a thick concrete house, and the siblings attempt to escape. While making their attempt, the brother manages to get free, only to leave his sister behind. His sister's screams haunt him as he runs.
STORY 6: This centers around the Rwandan Genocide, when a mixed ethnicity(race?) family was hiding families of Tutsi in the roof. This centers on the POV of a girl, who has a younger baby brother. However, a group of Hutus, people who they have lived with, break into the house and demand that the father, a Hutu, kill his wife, a Tutsi as one of the men had done to their own. The mother nods and the father slams an axe into her before leaving; the mob burns the house. As soon as they leave, the two children flee the burning house, the girl leading her brother, hand in hand. As they run, frames and beams begin to break down, and the house collapses as the families in the attic scream in pain.
**If I remember the afterword correctly, the book stated that the last story, the one with the Rwanda genocide, was from the memories of a UN Rwanda Ambassador. However, I can't seem to find anything about it. I believe it was actually a memoir/memory.** (hide spoiler)]

Anything enclosed in double asterisks, like **______** means that I have doubt on these particular details.
The title may have the word "privileged" in it, but I'm hesitant about it.
I read this book while I was in Morocco, if that helps. Maybe the story is bigger in that country?
The short stories are recorded not in any particular order, aside from the last one. I distinctly remember that the last one referenced the Rwanda Genocide.

[Ayshe]

Say You're One of Them maybe?

[Amir]

Ayshe wrote: "Say You're One of Them maybe?"

Holy crap! How did you get that? And I see that I've got some details in the spoilers wrong.

Thank you!

The book is:
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan

[Ayshe]

Great! It was in worldcat'org's search results for keywords: "short stories" Rwanda children.