Cécile Kayirebwa

“In the 1960s, as Rwanda underwent immense political transitions, she recognized that centuries of oral history, poetry, and royal music were at risk of disappearing. She took it upon herself to interview village elders, preserve ancient poems, and master traditional instruments like the inanga and umuduri.”

“I am here to join each and every one of you, so that we can comfort and uplift each other in this period we are commemorating our own who we lost in the Genocide against the Tutsi, so that we can reflect on what happened, and pray to God that it never happens again, not only in Rwanda but to.”