Alexis Kagame

Alexis Kagame was born on 15 May 1912 in Kiyanza, in Rwanda, into a long line of historians of the royal court. Trained at the seminary of Nyakibanda and ordained a priest on 25 July 1941, he edited the Catholic newspaper Kinyamateka, then, sent to Rome, obtained a doctorate in philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University. A professor in the seminaries, then of history at the National University of Rwanda, he was a philosopher, linguist, historian, poet and translator. He died in Nairobi on 2 December 1981.

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• PoetryLa Divine PastoraleAlexis Kagame · 1952not translated into EnglishLiterature