Saverio Naigiziki

Saverio Naigiziki, or Nayigiziki, was born on 2 September 1915 in Rwanda. Expelled from the minor seminary of Kabgayi in 1932, he was a clerk, secretary and translator, office worker, driver, an unsuccessful tradesman, then a post office and bank employee in the Belgian Congo, before becoming an editor and research assistant at the Institute for Scientific Research in Central Africa. From his wanderings he drew a long autobiographical narrative in French, awarded a prize in Brussels. A deputy chief in the administration of the kingdom, then a teacher of Latin and French, he died on 12 January 1984.

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• TheatreL'OptimisteSaverio Naigiziki · 1954not translated into EnglishLiterature