Thérèse MUAMINI An author from Rwanda writing in French

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Thérèse Muamini was born in Rwanda. She arrived in France in 1976, where she was joined in 1982 by a cousin suffering from Aids. When this cousin dies, Thérèse Muamini adopts her baby son who is HIV positive. For the next ten years she works as a domestic help so as to be able to feed her family. She also has to cope with the antagonism surrounding her, as well as preventing her children from being put into care.

Publications

En collaboration avec Nadine Bitner Mon Fils mon amour . [In collaboration with Nadine Bitner My Son, my love ]. Paris: Ramsay, 1995. (240p.). Novel. ISBN: 9 782841 140619.

Thérèse is African. Upon her arrival in France she is happy to find work as a domestic help. Her fate takes a turn for the worse when she adopts a baby who is HIV positive from a friend who has just died of Aids. It is then that her problems begin : she has to look ater Tshakua while continuing to work, as well as having to find somewhere to live, having being thrown out of her apartment because she took in two other children.

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Last updated: Tuesday, 26-Nov-96
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