Nivyabandi, Ketty, 1978-
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Birth Date
- 1978
Birth Place
- Belgium
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- French
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- found: Teddy Mazina, 2015:page 11 (Ketty Nivyabandi, poet) pages 148-149 (b. 1978 in Belgium, spent most of her childhood in Burundi, where she began writing at an early age; she studied in France and then at an American university in Kenya; in 2009 she returned to Burundi; her reputation as a poet first began to emerge thanks to the collective Maoni; she writes politically engaged poems; in 2012 she was chosen to represent Burundi at the London Poetry Parnassus)
- found: Vice News (online), Meet the poet who fled for her life after protesting against Burundi's president, July 7, 2015, viewed Dec. 2, 2015(Ketty Nivyabandi, Burundian citizen, poet and writer; led women-only protests in Bujumbura; after the May 13 [2015] attempted coup she was forced to flee the country and seek refuge in Rwanda)
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- 2015-12-02: new
- 2015-12-04: revised
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