Alexis Ndibwami left Rwanda in 1994 following the genocide campaigns and civil war. Since coming to London he has carried our research into cancer and Alzheimer's Disease with Oxford University and King's College London.
Q: When you and your wife were choosing names for your children, did you decide to choose traditional Rwandan names or …
Yes, that what they have.
Q: Yes. How did you choose their names?
But, particularly, it depends on the events, what we have, because for example our first born, was born in Nairobi and it was after the--, the tragic events of Rwanda, and we called him Muhoza which means his coming is a consolation, that is the full meaning he's coming is a consolation, we have lost everything and now here he comes.
Q: And what about your other two children?
The next one we, we said it's like--, it's more religious because he is called Uwayu which means he's for God, that is the meaning there. And the third one is Kwizera it's hope. So it is just particularly you think of something, which isn't even, maybe sometimes it can be something which already happened and you translate it in the name of your child.
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