Yolande Mukagasana
Rwandan writer, nurse, and survivor of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.
About Yolande Mukagasana
Born 1954. Yolande Mukagasana is a Rwandan and Belgian writer, nurse anesthetist, autobiographer, prose writer, memoirist and medic.
Yolande Mukagasana (left) and Gerhard Falkner at the XVIII International Poetry Festival of MedellÃn. Yolande Mukagasana (born 6 September 1954) is a Rwandan writer writing in French who is a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
She was a Tutsi nurse and anaesthetist working at a hospital in Kigali.
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Who is Yolande Mukagasana?
Rwandan writer, nurse, and survivor of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.
When was Yolande Mukagasana born?
Yolande Mukagasana was born on 6 September 1954 in Rwanda.
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Yolande Mukagasana is a writer, nurse anesthetist, autobiographer, prose writer, memoirist and medic.
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Yolande Mukagasana is Rwandan and Belgian.
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