Be Yourself. The World Worships the Original.
If Self was a poet, she would write a beautiful poem for the phenomenal men and women of Ishaka. But She is not, unfortunately. Bare with her while she attempts to put into words the feelings and emotions the people who went to the Ishaka’s show went through. If you don’t know by now what […]
June 5th was the Big Day. The day that I have been waiting for was finally here. I have been dreaming of the day that I will wake up knowing that I will get on stage to receive the piece of paper that will always remind me that all the hustle was so worth it. […]
Hosting the Burundian SnapChat account was a very cool experience for me. Before that, I had been following the account for only a few weeks and at first, I thought: huuum this is a fantastic concept. Of course, I was kind of lost; I had no idea what African Trip was. I finally got a friend […]
I have never been a math person and I will never be one. I just don’t get how it works. Yes I know 2+3=5 and that is because it is pretty basic but ask me how to derive or integrate an equation and it will take me as long as it takes a baby to […]
I met Melissa my first year of undergrad. We were in the same economics class and she heard me speaking on the phone in Kirundi and waited until the end of the lecture to talk to me. Now that I am thinking about it, I probably said something about her(without knowing she can understand Kirundi) […]
You are probably wondering who this man is and why he goes by the name -or should I say nickname- MrBurundi. If you think that he won the contest of Mister Burundi at some point in his life, well you are wrong. That contest does not even exist in Burundi. Why that nickname, though? I am sorry […]
I was quietly seating down, doing my hair when my sister came to see me alarmed and asked me: “Did you see the last post on ThisBurundianLife?” Then I go “NO! What is it about?” But when she started to talk about it, I told her to stop, to not spoil it for me, then I […]
