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Alexis Kagame -- Encyclopædia Britannica
Rwandan poet, historian, and Roman Catholic priest who introduced the written art, both in his own language, Kinyarwanda, and in French, to his country. [eng] |
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KAGAME, Alexis, Rwanda, Catholic
Kagame was born into a family of court historians and soon became intimately familiar with the oral traditions of the Tutsi. His family converted to Catholicism after World War I, and Kagame attended both a missionary school as well as one for the sons of chiefs. He entered a seminary in 1929 and was ordained in 1941. By 1938, while still a seminarian, he was an editor of a Catholic newspaper. He also taught at the novitiate of the Brothers of St. Joseph (Bayozefiti), which he continued to do for five years after his ordination. During this time Kagame became a close friend of King MUTARA III and rose to prominence in the country. Kagame's abilities would have been apparent under any conditions, but he had the good fortune of achieving public attention as Catholicism became a pervasive force in the country. [eng] |
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