Cynthia Munwangari

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Cynthia Munwangari
Born (1990-09-08) September 8, 1990 (age 33)
Bujumbura, Burundi
Occupation Fashion designer
Years active2010 — present
Known forFashion
TitleDirector & Founder
Bujumbura Fashion Week

Cynthia Munwangari is a Burundian fashion designer, fashionista and businesswoman. She is the founder and current director of "Bujumbura Fashion Week", held annually in Bujumbura (the country's largest city). [1]

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Background and education

She was born on 8 September 1990, in Bujumbura, the largest city and then-capital of Burundi. Her father is a Burundi citizen and her mother traces her ancestry to Rwanda. [1] She is the third-born and has two brothers and one sister. She received all her education in Burundi. [1]

Career

Munwangari is the founder-owner of the "Cy’Mun Collection" clothing label. She is also a fashion model for her label. [1] In July 2014, Cynthia Munwangari, at the age of 23 years organised the first Bujumbura Fashion Week, attended by 24 African designers, from 14 countries. The four-hour fashion parade included forty models and was attended by Pierre Nkurunziza, the president of Burundi. [2]

Controversy

On the evening of Saturday 12 November 2016, one Kenneth Watmond Akena, employed as a community development officer in Aruu North County, Pader District, in Northern Uganda, while driving an automobile, collided with another vehicle in which Cynthia Munwangari was a passenger. The driver of the other vehicle was one Mathew Kanyamunyu, a Ugandan businessman and the boyfriend of Munwangari. The incident occurred in the Lugogo neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. [3]

Later that evening Kanyamunyu and Munnwangari showed up at Norvik Hospital in the central business district of the city with Akena, who was bleeding from gunshot wounds to the abdomen. [3] The Ugandan authorities were not satisfied with the explanations given by the couple regarding how Akena sustained his injuries, so they detained both. When Akena died the next day; both were charged with his murder. [4] [5]

In March 2017 Cynthia Munwangari and a brother of her boyfriend were granted bail but the boyfriend remained behind bars. [6] As of August 2017, the trial continues, with Cynthia Munwangari out on bail and her boyfriend Matthew Kayamunyu incarcerated. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Nash, Anthony (19 November 2016). "Meet Cynthia Munwangari, The Bujumbura Fashion Week Director!". Kampala: Showbiz Uganda. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  2. ↑ MAC (25 August 2014). "Bujumbura Fashion Week: A Successful Start for Burundi Fashion". Modelacoutureng.com (MAC). Retrieved 23 August 2017.[ dead link ]
  3. 1 2 Odoobo C. Bichachi (16 November 2016). "Fresh details on Saturday shooting at Lugogo malls". Daily Monitor . Kampala. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Ephraim Kasozi, and Juliet Kigongo (23 November 2016). "Kanyamunyus spend their first night in jail on murder charges". Daily Monitor . Kampala. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  5. ↑ Mudoola, Petride (24 November 2016). "Kanyamunyu's girlfriend spends first night in Luzira crying". New Vision . Kampala. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  6. ↑ Monitor Reporter (28 March 2017). "Kanyamunyu denied bail; Brother, girlfriend out". Daily Monitor . Kampala. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  7. ↑ Michael Odeng, and Barbra Kabahumuza (23 August 2017). "Kanyamunyu denied bail yet again". New Vision . Kampala. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
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