Perpétue NSHIMIRIMANA An author from the Burundi writing in French [Return to French — Page originale en français]

Perpétue Nshimirimana was born in Bujumbura in February 1961. After finishing high school at the Lycée Clarté Notre Dame in Bujumbura, she went to Algeria to pursue her tertiary education in journalism at the National Institute for Media and Communication. In 1984, shortly after graduating, she returned to Burundi and began work at Burundi National Radio and Television. She was a member of various national committees in the early nineties. In 1993, she was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Burundi to the UN, in Geneva, by the newly elected Government of President Melchior Ndadaye. Unfortunately, she says in the concluding pages of her autobiography: "Democratically elected President Melchior Ndadaye was assassinated by the army in October 1993, hundred of thousands of people were slaughtered and hundred of thousands of others took to the road and became exiled like myself" (Autobiography, pp.192-3). Currently (2004), Perpétue Nshimirimana Gashaza lives in Switzerland.

Publications

Lettre à Isidore [Letter to Isidore]. Vevey (Suisse): Editions de l'Aire, 2004. (200p.) ISBN 2-88108-668-3. Autobiography.

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