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Rwandan Writers
This is a list of Rwandan writers. See also *List of African writers by country *List of Rwandans References {{Authority control Lists of writers by nationality, Rwandan Lists of Rwandan people, Writers Rwandan writers, Lists of African writers, Rwanda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With a comparatively high elevation, Rwanda has been given the sobriquet "land of a thousand hills" (), with its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the southeast, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical, with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year. It is the most densely populated mainland African country; among countries larger than 10,000 km2, it is the third-most densely populated country in the world. Its Capital city, capital and largest city is Kigali. Hunter-gatherers settled the territory in the Stone Age, Stone and Iron Ages, followed later by Bantu peoples. The population coalesce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Ndwaniye
Joseph Ndwaniye (born 1962 Murambi) is a Rwandan nurse and writer. He garnered widespread attention with the publication of his first novel, ''La promesse faite à ma soeur'', which won multiple awards. Medical career Ndwaniye worked in several hospitals in Rwanda as a medical assistant before moving to Belgium over 30 years ago where he qualified as a specialist cancer nurse, trained in laboratory technologies and completed a Masters in Hospital Management. Since 2001, he has worked at the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels in a unit for child and adult patients receiving bone marrow transplants and hematopoietic stem cell treatment. Literary works His first novel, ''La promesse faite à ma soeur'', published in 2007 by Impressions Nouvelles, was a finalist in the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the prix du Marais and the Prix Jean Bernard. This novel is the fruit of the author's own return to Rwanda several years after the genocide. ''La promesse fait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Rwandan People
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rwandans
This is a list of notable people from Rwanda. Military * Théoneste Bagosora (b. 1941), military officer convicted in 2008 of genocide * Bernard Ntuyahaga * Kayumba Nyamwasa, former army chief of staff and head of Intelligence * James Kabarebe, current minister of defense * Patrick Nyamvumba, current RDF chief of staff * Augustin Bizimungu * Innocent Sagahutu Political figures * Agathe Uwilingiyimana former Prime Minister of Rwanda * Jean-Paul Akayesu (b. 1953), politician convicted in 1998 of genocide * Jean Bosco Barayagwiza * Christophe Bazivamo, Minister of Land and Environment * Augustin Bizimana (b. 1954), politician, fugitive of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda * Jean-Damascène Bizimana, former Rwandan ambassador to the UN * Augustin Bizimungu (b. 1952), politician on trial for genocide * Pasteur Bizimungu, former President of Rwanda * Anastase Gasana, diplomat * Juvénal Habyarimana, former President of Rwanda * Jean Marie Higiro, former Director of the Rw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of African Writers By Country
This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa. It includes poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars, listed by country. Algeria ''See: List of Algerian writers'' Angola ''See: List of Angolan writers'' Benin ''See: List of Beninese writers'' Botswana * Unity Dow (1959–), judge, human rights activist, writer and minister of basic education * Bessie Head (1937–1986), novelist and short-story writer born in South Africa * Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–1971), playwright and poet * Barolong Seboni (1957–), poet and academic Burkina Faso ''See: List of Burkinabé writers'' Burundi * Esther Kamatari (1951–) * Ketty Nivyabandi (1978–) * Gaël Faye (1982–) Cameroon ''See: List of Cameroonian writers'' Cape Verde Central African Republic * Pierre Makombo Bamboté (1932–), novelist and poet * Etienne Goyémidé (1942–1997), novelist, poet and short story writer: ''Le Silence de la Foret'' * Blaise N'Djehoya (1953–), novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Béatrice Umutesi
Marie Béatrice Umutesi is a Rwandan writer, NGO worker, peace activist and refugee living in Belgium. Born in Byumba, Rwanda in 1959 to a moderate Hutu family she studied sociology in university before going on to work in rural development. As a Hutu woman she was forced to flee to escape the Tutsi genocide of the Hutus, and she took refuge in the present day DRC surviving numerous attacks from the Rwandan Patriotic Front The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF–Inkotanyi; , FPR) is the ruling political party in Rwanda. The RPF was founded in December 1987 by Rwandan Tutsi in exile in Uganda because of the ethnic violence that had occurred during the Rwandan Hutu Revo ... in 1996. By 1998, she had been forced to flee again and settled in Belgium working to restore peace and in conflict resolution between the Hutu's and Tutsis. Her memoir of her experience as a refugee, originally written in French called, ''Fuir ou mourir au Zaire. Le vécu d'une réfugiée Rwandaise''(English t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Sehene
Benjamin Sehene (born 1959) is a Rwandan author whose work primarily focuses on questions of identity and the events surrounding the Rwandan genocide. He spent much of his life in Canada and lives in France. Early life and education Benjamin Sehene was born in Kigali, Rwanda, in 1959 to a Tutsi family. His family fled Rwanda owing to ethnic tensions and massacres of Tutsi people in 1963 for Uganda. They were lucky to escape owing to Benjamin's older brother, who was working for United States embassy in Kigali at the time and was able to evacuate the family. Benjamin grew up and went to school in Uganda. He studied in Paris at Sorbonne University in the early 1980s. Career In 1984 Sehene immigrated to Canada, and started to write in 1988. After moving to Paris, in 1994 the Rwandan genocide took place. Sehene travelled back to Rwanda to witness and write about what he saw. He rediscovered childhood sensations buried in his memory, as well as his mother tongue, Kinyarwanda. Ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorcy Rugamba
Dorcy Rugamba (born 1969) is a Rwandan author, actor, dancer, and stage director. Being a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which his parents and most of his family were murdered, much of his work is focused on this and other genocides. He has also acted in films. He founded the Rwanda Arts Initiative and the Kigali Triennial. His 2024 memoir dedicated to his absent family, ''Hewa Rwanda, une lettre aux absents'' is being presented in English translation as a performance accompanied by music, called ''Hewa Rwanda, Letter to the Absent'', premiering in February 2025 at the Adelaide Festival in Australia. Early life and education Dorcy Rugamba was born in Rwanda in 1969, the son of Cyprien and Daphrose Rugamba. Cyprien Rugamba (a Hutu man) was a writer, choreographer, composer, and museum curator, and Daphrose was a Tutsi woman. The couple introduced the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and the Emmanuel Community to Rwanda in 1990. Dorcy was introduced to the performing art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyprien Rugamba
Cyprien (c. 1935 – 7 April 1994) and Daphrose Rugamba (c. 1944 – 7 April 1994) were a married couple from Rwanda, who introduced the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and the Emmanuel Community to their country in 1990. Cyprien, of the Hutu ethnic group, was a writer, choreographer, composer, and museum curator, and Daphrose was a Tutsi school teacher. They were both murdered in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The cause for their canonization in the Catholic Church was opened in 2015. Biography Cyprien ipiriyaniRugamba was born around 1935. He attended primary school in Nyamagabe. In September 1948, he was admitted to Saint Léon Minor Seminary of Kabgayi, where he finished in 1954 and moved to Nyakibanda Major Seminary. He also studied history in Burundi and Belgium. He had a talent for poetry, music, and choreography, with a particular interest for ancestral art forms in Rwanda. He served as director of the Rwandan National Institute for Scientific Studies in Butare. Daphro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yolande Mukagasana
Yolande Mukagasana (born 6 September 1954) is a Rwandan writer writing in French who is a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. She was a Tutsi nurse and anaesthetist working at a hospital in Kigali. She fled to Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ... during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi; her husband, her children and many of the people she knew were killed. In Belgium, her qualifications were not recognized so she worked in a senior's residence. She later adopted some of her nieces whose parents had been killed and other Rwandan orphans. Mukagasana returned to Rwanda with Greek-Belgian photographer Alain Kazinierakis. Together, they produced the travelling exhibition ''Les Blessures du silence'', witness accounts of the genocide. They also foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
