Consolee Nishimwe

Speaker|| Storyteller|| Genocide Survivor|| Author of a memoir #Testedtothelimit 📚 Enquiries ➡️ [email protected]
A lover of life and Humanity

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

"Each day felt like it could be our last, and it came with terrible memories that left unbearable wounds. For three months, we endured unimaginable horrors that will stay with us forever. Despite everything that we went through, we never lost hope #Kwibuka31

[Inkuru Library @InkuruLibrary]

In 𝑍𝑎𝑛𝑧𝑖𝑏𝑎𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 (2024), Dr. Nathanael Mathews revisits the history of a Swahili-speaking Afro-Arab diaspora connecting East Africa and Oman.

Similarly, in 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑒́𝑒 (2022), Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse explores the fate of Afro-Belgian Métis children forcibly separated from their families during Belgian colonial rule in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Despite their different historical contexts, both books illuminate underdocumented diasporic histories whose cultural traces endure across Eastern African societies, Belgium, and Oman.

Also Read:

𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑒́𝑒
https://t.co/pnsRI8LCjM

𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛, 𝐿𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝐴𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐹𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠: 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑒́𝑡𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝐹𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑔𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒
https://t.co/y1AOfBdIKM

#Historiography #History #Memory #Rwanda #Tanzania #DRC #Burundi #Oman #Belgium #DigitalMuseum

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

@VasfijeKrasniqi
Congratulations on your new book @NadiaMuradBasee
You are our inspiration 🫂 https://t.co/w4itLAdNqB
#courage #hope #inspiration #sisters #kosovo #yazidiraq #rwanda

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

@DadydeMaximo Ubivuze neza cyane
Urukundo ni ingenzi kuva uri ikibondo
Kandi kumvwa ni amatwi y'umutima arimo urukundo ntako bisa.

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

Thanks @puroduca and your team for making another moving film to continue preserving history. I can’t wait for you to do a screening in New York City 🤍

[Bisesero Movie @biseseromovie]

In 1994, as the Genocide against the Tutsi swept across Rwanda, a young woman and her family led a community that refused to die without a fight.
#biseseromovie #hillsofresistance

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

@Karirima1 A great article

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

Mubyeyi mwiza waraduhumurije mu ndirimbo zawe. Ndibuka nkubona naraguhobeye umbabarire ndahoberana cyane noneho byagera kuwonkunda ni akarusho. Uri mitima yacu. Iruhukire aheza abamarayika bakumpoberere cyane 🕊😭🙏🏽

[Inkuru Library @InkuruLibrary]

𝐒𝐮𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐲𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐛𝐰𝐚 (𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟑–𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔),
a Rwandan musical icon and one of the custodians of Rwanda’s historical memory through music, is gone.

She will be remembered for her role in preserving Rwandan culture during her years in exile; the contribution of her songs to the artistic and cultural front during the Rwanda Patriotic Front’s Liberation War; and her immense artistic contribution to preserving and shaping oral history and the memory of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

She leaves behind a lasting legacy, a story, and a life worth celebrating as one of the most remarkable artists in Rwanda’s history.

#CulturalMemory #HistoryWithPeople #Music #Art #OralHistory #DigitalMuseum

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

@RwandaInUSA @AmbMukantabana @RwandaMFA @SilkeEndress @aasiimwe Congratulations to our Ambassador 🎊🎉

[Formula 1 @F1]

Africa, we’re back. 🌍

From the early 2030s, the African Grand Prix will join the calendar and take place in Bugesera, Rwanda 🇷🇼

#F1

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

@DadydeMaximo 🙌🏾🙏🏽🤍

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

@MarieKresbach ❤️💕❤️💕

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

@e_murangwa @cpcr_fr @FoundIshami @ZoeNorridge @Ibuka_Rwanda @IbukaFrance @Unity_MemoryRw Thank you brother for sharing. She is our shero. May her soul rest in peace 🙏🏽🕊

[Mathilde Mukantabana @AmbMukantabana]

Heartwarming story of the only boarding school for girls from Afghanistan in #Rwanda

https://t.co/1i6oxd1ADe

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

To a Life Well Lived

Thanks @RealDydine for this lovely tribute to our wonderful Dafroza Gauthier.

#shero #inspiration #rwanda

https://t.co/gcA8jDur2z

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

@DadydeMaximo A Shero and a wonderful soul
Impore impore twese 🫂🕊

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

@aysesila1975 💔😭

[Inkuru Library @InkuruLibrary]

𝗗𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗼𝘇𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗿 (𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟰–𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲)

Dafroza Gauthier (1954–2026), born Dafroza Mukarumongi on August 4, 1954, in Astrida (now Huye), Rwanda, under Belgian colonial rule, was a French-Rwandan chemical engineer and human-rights and Genocide victims’ justice activist. During the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, she lost many of members of her family.

In November 2001, Dafroza, together with her husband Alain Gauthier, co-founded 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝐶𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑒 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎 (𝐶𝑃𝐶𝑅), an organization that supports survivors and victims’ families in seeking justice and pursuing accountability for individuals suspected of participating in the Genocide against the Tutsi who settled in France.

Through the CPCR, Dafroza and Alain Gauthier collected testimonies and evidence, worked with Genocide survivors, investigators, and French judicial authorities, and contributed to the prosecution of different alleged Genocide perpetrators in France.

As her family, friends, and humanity mourn Dafroza’s passing, her life will continue to be celebrated as that of a voice who spoke for victims and a tireless woman who dedicated her life to seeking justice for the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

#DafrozaGauthier #JusticeForVictims #GenocideAgainstTheTutsi

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

This is so heartbreaking 😭💔
She is our Shero. May her soul rest in peace 🕊

[The New Times (Rwanda) @NewTimesRwanda]

UPDATE: Dafroza Mukarumongi Gauthier, co-founder of the Collectif des Parties Civiles pour le Rwanda (CPCR), has passed away. The organisation has worked to bring to justice people suspected of involvement in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi who fled to France.

In 2017, President #Kagame awarded Dafroza and her husband, Alain Gauthier, the Igihango National Order of Outstanding Friendship for their contribution to #Rwanda.

[Consolee Nishimwe @nconsolee]

@e_murangwa @Ibuka_Rwanda @IbukaFrance @cpcr_fr @FoundIshami Oh no this is so heartbreaking 😭 She is our Shero. May her soul rest in peace 🙏🏽🕊