Cynthia Munwangari is a
Burundian fashion designer
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, fashionista and
businesswoman. She is the founder and current director of "Bujumbura Fashion Week", held annually in
Bujumbura
Bujumbura (; ), formerly Usumbura, is the economic capital, largest city and main port of Burundi. It ships most of the country's chief export, coffee, as well as cotton and tin ore. Bujumbura was formerly the country's normal capital. In late ...
(the country's largest city).
Background and education
She was born on 8 September 1990, in
Bujumbura
Bujumbura (; ), formerly Usumbura, is the economic capital, largest city and main port of Burundi. It ships most of the country's chief export, coffee, as well as cotton and tin ore. Bujumbura was formerly the country's normal capital. In late ...
, the largest city and then-
capital
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of Burundi. Her father is a Burundi citizen and her mother traces her ancestry to
Rwanda
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.
She is the third-born and has two brothers and one sister. She received all her education in Burundi.
Career
Munwangari is the founder-owner of the "Cy’Mun Collection" clothing label. She is also a fashion model for her label.
In July 2014, Cynthia Munwangari, at the age of 23 years organised the first Bujumbura Fashion Week, attended by 24 African designers, from 14 countries. The four-hour fashion parade included forty models and was attended by
Pierre Nkurunziza
Pierre Nkurunziza (18 December 19648 June 2020) was a Burundian politician who served as the ninth president of Burundi for almost 15 years from August 2005 until his death in June 2020.
A member of the Hutu ethnic group, Nkurunziza taught ph ...
, the president of Burundi.
Controversy
On the evening of Saturday 12 November 2016, one Kenneth Watmond Akena, employed as a community development officer in Aruu North County,
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, in Northern Uganda, while driving an automobile, collided with another vehicle in which Cynthia Munwangari was a passenger. The driver of the other vehicle was one Mathew Kanyamunyu, a Ugandan businessman and the boyfriend of Munwangari. The incident occurred in the
Lugogo neighborhood of
Kampala
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, Uganda's capital and largest city.
Later that evening Kanyamunyu and Munnwangari showed up at Norvik Hospital in the
central business district
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of the city with Akena, who was bleeding from gunshot wounds to the abdomen.
The Ugandan authorities were not satisfied with the explanations given by the couple regarding how Akena sustained his injuries, so they detained both. When Akena died the next day; both were charged with his murder.
In March 2017 Cynthia Munwangari and a brother of her boyfriend were granted bail but the boyfriend remained behind bars. As of August 2017, the trial continues, with Cynthia Munwangari out on bail and her boyfriend Matthew Kayamunyu incarcerated.
See also
*
Judiciary of Uganda
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*
Sonia Mugabo
References
External links
Kanyamunyu's new bail case to be heard on 4 October 2017Bujumbura Fashion Week (Video)
(In French)
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Living people
1990 births
Burundian businesspeople
Burundian fashion designers
Burundian women in business