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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 {{expand list, date=November 2014 Rwandan Writers A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rwanda
Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central 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. It is highly elevated, giving it the soubriquet "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. Rwanda has a population of over 12.6 million living on of land, and is the most densely populated mainland African country; among countries larger than 10,000 km2, it is the fifth most densely populated country in the world. One million people live in the Capital city, capital and largest city Kigali. Hunter-gatherers settled the territory in the St ... [...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 Writers By Nationality
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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 t ... [...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 * Galesiti Baruti, novelist and academic * 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–) 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'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germain Muhirwa
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Marie Béatrice Umutesi
Marie Béatrice Umutesi (born 1959) is a Rwandan writer writing in French. She was born in Byumba and studied sociology, going on to work in rural development. Considered a "moderate" Hutu, she was forced to flee to Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1996, the refugee camps were attacked by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (the current ruling political party in Rwanda, led by President Paul Kagame), and she was forced to flee again. Umutesi settled in Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ... in 1998. She wrote an account of her experiences in ''Fuir ou mourir au Zaire. Le vécu d'une réfugiée Rwandaise'' (English title: ''Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire''). In 2006, she wrote the article ''Is Reconciliation between Hu ... [...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. Sehene was born in Kigali to a Tutsi family. His family fled Rwanda in 1963 for Uganda, and he studied in Paris at the Sorbonne in the early 1980s, before emigrating to Canada in 1984. He lives in Paris. He is a member of PEN International. In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, Sehene returned to Rwanda, hoping to better understand what had happened. He subsequently wrote Le Piège ethnique (''The Ethnic Trap'') (1999), a study of ethnic polemics, and Le Feu sous la soutane (''Fire under the Cassock'') (2005), an historical novel focusing on the true story of a Hutu Catholic priest, Father Stanislas, who offered protection to Tutsi refugees in his church before sexually exploiting the women and participating in massacres. Sehene also contributes articles to the online ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically 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) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...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, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ... 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 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amata Giramata
Amata Inès Giramata (born 29 January 1996), is a Rwandan poet, blogger, feminist and community organizer. She is the founder and chief executive of ''Sistah Circle'', "a black feminist and womanist grass roots community dedicated to black women's lives and narratives told through radical love and storytelling", as described by Giramata, herself. Background and education Giramata was born in Rwanda on 29 January 1996. She is the first born in a family of four sisters and one brother. She attended ''La Colombiere School'' for her primary school training. She then transferred to Uganda, joining ''St. Mary's College Kitende'', in Wakiso District. She completed her high school education at ''Green Hills Academy'', in Kigali, Rwanda's capital city, in May 2013. She joined DePauw University, in the American state of Indiana, later the same year. In 2017, she graduated from DePauw University with a Bachelor of Arts in Development Economics and Policy, Gender, Women and Sexuality S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias. The most widely accepted scholarly estimates are around 500,000 to 662,000 Tutsi deaths. In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed mostly of Tutsi refugees, invaded northern Rwanda from their base in Uganda, initiating the Rwandan Civil War. Over the course of the next three years, neither side was able to gain a decisive advantage. In an effort to bring the war to a peaceful end, the Rwandan government led by Hutu president, Juvénal Habyarimana signed the Arusha Accords (Rwanda), Arusha Accords with the RPF on 4 August 1993. The catalyst became assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, Habyarimana's assassination on 6 April 1994, creating a power vacuum and ending peace accords. Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
