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WHO IS JUSTE PICASSO NDUWAYO? ‘It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves we will be defined by others for their use and to our detriments.’ Andre LORDE This writing is not written for purposes of an academic piece with all scholarly theories but it is a simple essay which can be easily read and understood by everyone who knows English. It is an ordinary message to my offspring who can be interested in a small potato like Juste Picasso NDUWAYO, his background from 1985 to 2016. To a large extend, my life philosophy believes in ideas ”  Pray as one who may die at any moment, but work as one who lives eternally”.            Juste Picasso Nduwayo was born on September 12, 1985 in an intellectual family and is the first-born in the family with one brother and three sisters. His father, Alphonse Propagande, was a teacher before he became an administrator of Ntega. In 2001, he became a Member of Parliament in the National A...

Burundian Crisis: True Causes and Adequate Solutions By: Seth NDUWAYO From the period of Independence up today, our country kept passing through difficult and violence-characterized periods. Those periods were featured by ethnic conflicts on the one hand and civil wars on the other. From one period to another, the violence-involved groups or violence-benefiting leaders always had explanations or excuses. Today, therefore, we experience bad situations and those individuals still come to instill into us their truths, but they still don’t point their fingers at the true causes. To notice this, one has to glance at our past and realize that we are experiencing, today, the same problems and, the people at the top of fighting groups are the same. It is easily noticeable that if nothing is done in order to find adequate solutions to the true causes of the Burundian crisis, other wars will still break out. So, what are the true causes of crisis in Burundi? Can they be solved? Or, where c...

Mariage Mixte: Un Mélange Qui Dérange: Par Juste Picasso NDUWAYO Aujourd’hui, à cause de la guerre inter-ethnique la haine et la méfiance au sein des familles se sont tellement accentués qu’il serait héroïque d’envisager un mariage mixte même chez les chrétiens les plus fervents.  Les quelques rares cas de mariage mixte qu’on enregistre sporadiquement sont la preuve qu’une telle réalité est possible ; il suffit de vouloir vivre en chrétiens, ceux qui s’engagent à se marier étant d’ethnies différentes, se sont parfois rejetés par leurs familles et marginalises par leur amis. Ceci est dur à supporter pour le Burundais dont la vie n’a de sens qu’en communauté familiale. La seule moyen pour fortifier l’unité nationale est d’avoir beaucoup de mariage mixtes qui aidera ce bon peuple qui s’est entretué à cause des  préjugées basées sur la haine entre les ethnies. Et par conséquent, nous aurons un pays où les personnes seront jugées, non pas par leurs ethnies, sexes,...