by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Jun 2, 2022 | Poetry
In the last week of June 1994, we were moved from Gisimba orphanage where we had been hiding and taken to St. Michel Cathedral in the city center of Kigali. At that time the child I was thought that every person who was not an assassin was either hiding (like us) or...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Dec 28, 2021 | Poetry
I posted the words below on Facebook on 28 December 2017. It was almost one year before the publication of my debut novel titled HEARTS AMONG OURSELVES, and the publication of a dozen poems, including those about my personal and family experiences and some fictional...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Jun 28, 2021 | Poetry
Umva uyu muvugo mu majwi n’amashusho. Reba iyi video iri munsi aha. Uyu muvugo nawandikiye ibikorwa byo kunamira abacu bishwe muri Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, mu Rwanda, mu 1994. Nawuvuze bwa mbere mu gikorwa cyo Kwibuka cyari cyateguwe na Ambassade y’u...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Apr 18, 2021 | Poetry
NDABAZA U RWANDA – Indirimbo (A song) Muri ibi bihe Abanyarwanda, ndetse abatuye isi yose, dufashe umwanya wo gutuza, tugatekereza kuri Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu Rwanda mu mwaka w’i 1994, tukunamira imbaga y’abishwe n’abo bari bahuje...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 13, 2021 | Poetry
UWAMPAYE IZINA – Umutoma Reba iyi video ndetse nubishaka wisomere imikarago uko ikurikirana hasi aho. Nkwifurije umunsi mwiza w’Abakundana. Mbifurije mwese umunsi mwiza w’abakundana. Uyu mutoma ni uwa Rwema rw’i Buganza twubakanye urwashibutse...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
Umva uyu muvugo mu majwi n’amashusho. Reba iyi video iri munsi aha. © 2021 A. Happy Umwagarwa All Rights Reserved. Ntuzabe Nka Ruberito Igihe rwari rukotanye ntiyaciwe iryeraSi ikigwari ahubwo agendana n’ingomaNkezuwimye aharanira kuramuka...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
Umva uyu muvugo mu majwi n’amashusho. Reba iyi video iri munsi aha. “If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go of the past that drags you down.” ― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
All of us have a purpose to fulfill in life. We have devised different strategies to fulfill that purpose. Writing is my vocation. It’s with language that I have chosen to contribute to making this world a better place for me, you, my descendants, and yours. I...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
Kanda video iri munsi aha, maze wumve Umwagarwa aririmba iyi ndirimbo yise “NZARIRIMBA INTSINZI NGEZE I GABIRO.” Nta busobanuro bundi nifuza ko bwaherekeza iyi ndirimbo, usibye kuba narayandikiye rimwe n’umuvugo nise: NANZE KURIRIMBA INTSINZI. ©...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
Rwanda is a country of people who speak the same language, share the same culture (with its diversity), and live in the same villages, on the country’s beautiful hills, as neighbors, friends and relatives. Researchers and scholars have not yet agreed on both...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
Umva uyu muvugo mu majwi n’amashusho. Reba iyi video iri munsi aha. (The video has English translation) © 2020 A. Happy Umwagarwa All Rights Reserved. Nanze Kuririmba Intsinzi Cya gitondo ntazigera nibagirwaNaraye ikuzimu nkabyukira ibuzimaMbona...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
The only thing I can write as an introduction to this poem is this quote: “Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
Umva uyu muvugo mu majwi n’amashusho. Reba iyi video iri munsi aha. © 2018 A. Happy Umwagarwa All Rights Reserved. Kuki Wagiye Utanyibwiye Nahoze nshaka guceceka, ngo nihorere,Nahoze, ndira, mbura umpoza,Nahoze mbwirwa ko ndizwa n’ubusa,Nahoze...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
It hurts to lose loved ones to death. The pain is unbearable when your loved ones were murdered. The grief is endless when you do not know how, when, and where your loved ones were assassinated. If only, I could lay flowers on the grave of my brothers J. Paul...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
Umva uyu muvugo mu majwi n’amashusho. Reba iyi video iri munsi aha. (The video has English translation) © 2020 A. Happy UmwagarwaAll Rights Reserved. Umuti W’Umutima – Umutoma Umuti w’umutima burya ni urukundoIneza y’umukunzi iravura. Burya hari...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
The poem in video & audio on YouTube – Click to Watch and listen. © 2019 A. Happy Umwagarwa All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the author. Kaniziyo – A poem for my father His story was...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 10, 2021 | Poetry
Umva uyu muvugo mu majwi n’amashusho. Reba iyi video iri munsi aha. (The video has English translation) Uyu muvugo ugamije kwifatanya n’Abacitse ku icumu rya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, cyane abagiheranwe n’agahinda. Ngamije kubera ko batari bonyine...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Jan 19, 2021 | Poetry
On the occasion of my 41st birthday © 2020 A. Happy Umwagarwa All Rights Reserved. Happy The Loved One Yes, that’s my name Happy The Loved one. The Beauty that threatens the jealous The Upper that distracts the overzealous I’m the Joy that chases away the Sadness. I’m...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Jan 19, 2021 | Poetry
The poem in video & audio on YouTube – Click to Watch and listen. Prepared to Die for Peace – A Poem By A. Happy Umwagarwa On 04 January 2019, I posted on social media the following statement: “Rwanda does not need warriors, but peacemakers.” It was...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Jan 19, 2021 | Poetry
Immortelle – A Poem dedicated to my mother – By A. Happy Umwagarwa. Some emotions are hard to unscramble. Some experiences cannot be narrated in a book. How I wished she had burst into tears! She did not. She swallowed her pain so that we might not be chained...
