Eustache Ngabisha

Eustache Ngabisha (d. 1972 in Ngozi, Burundi)^[1] was a Burundian politician, and the father of Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza.^[2]

Ngabisha, who was Hutu and Roman Catholic,^[3] was an associate of Louis Rwagasore in the early 1960s,^[4] and subsequently became involved in politics, joining UPRONA.^[3]

In 1965, he was elected to a term in the Parliament of Burundi,^[5] and later served as governor of Ngozi Province and Kayanza Province^[5] (also described as the "director" of Kabezi, and the "commissioner of the district (Ngozi-Kayanza)").^[3]

During the 1972 genocide in Burundi, Ngabisha was imprisoned in Ngozi, and subsequently strangled in his cell with his own necktie.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Burundi : qu’est-ce qui fait courir Nkurunziza ?, by Olivier Caslin, in Jeune Afrique; published June 17, 2015; updated September 22, 2015; retrieved June 10, 2020
^ The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa, by Michael Amoah; published January 31, 2019, by Bloomsbury Publishing
^ ^a ^b ^c "Pierre Nkurunziza", by Christine Deslaurier, in the Dictionary of African Biography; edited by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates; published February 2, 2012, by OUP USA
^ Nkurunziza, de la révolte au pouvoir, by Marie Cros, in La Libre Belgique; published August 19, 2005; retrieved June 10,2020
^ ^a ^b Burundi, by Barry Turner, in The Statesman's Yearbook 2008

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