Assumpta Mugiraneza
IRIBA Center for Multimedia Heritage
Director & Co-founder • Rwanda
Bio
Assumpta Mugiraneza is a Franco-Rwandan academic with degrees in Education Studies, Social Psychology, and Political Science from the Université de Paris. Since 1994 her research has focused on genocide and extreme violence, particularly through discourse analysis, comparing the genocidal discourse of Hutu power to Nazi discourse. Since 2010 she has cofounded and directed the IRIBA Center for Multimedia Heritage, a center for Rwandan audio-visual archives spanning more than a century, freely accessible to all, at the intersection of academic research and practice.