Cynthia Munwangari

Cynthia Munwangari is a Burundian fashion designer, fashionista and businesswoman. She is the founder and current director of Bujumbura Fashion Week, held annually in Bujumbura (the country's largest city).

Background and education She was born on 8 September 1990, in Bujumbura, the largest city and then-capital of Burundi. Her father is a Burundi citizen and her mother traces her ancestry to Rwanda.

Controversy On the evening of Saturday 12 November 2016, one Kenneth Watmond Akena, employed as a community development officer in Aruu North County, Pader District, in Northern Uganda, while driving an automobile, collided with another vehicle in which Cynthia Munwangari was a passenger. The driver of the other vehicle was one Mathew Kanyamunyu, a Ugandan businessman and the boyfriend of Munwangari. The incident occurred in the Lugogo neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.

Later that evening Kanyamunyu and Munnwangari showed up at Norvik Hospital in the central business district of the city with Akena, who was bleeding from gunshot wounds to the abdomen.

In March 2017 Cynthia Munwangari and a brother of her boyfriend were granted bail but the boyfriend remained behind bars. As of August 2017, the trial continues, with Cynthia Munwangari out on bail and her boyfriend Matthew Kayamunyu incarcerated.