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 | 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 | 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
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 | Jan 19, 2021 | Poetry
The poem below was written on the occasion of the 26th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi. Inspired by Historical events, the story in this poem is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. © 2020...
