Jo Ingabire Moys is a Rwandan-British writer, actress and director [1] [2] [3] whose debut short film Bazigaga was nominated for a BAFTA after a successful festival tour. [4] [5] [6] [7]
She was born in the early 1990s, at the beginning of the Rwandan Civil War that involved the genocide of the Tutsi people by the Hutu ethnic majority in 1994. [1] She grew up in Kigali at the time when they were the only Tutsi family on the street. [8] She is the youngest of six children. [3] Her mother used to do business while her father worked for the customs office. [3] [9]
In 1997, when Moys was 8 years old, her school was attacked by militia forces of the former genocide regime who kidnaped the children of politicians. [3] The following year, Moys and her family moved to Uganda for eight years and later to the United Kingdom. [3] She attended Dulwich School in south London. This is where she found English literature and focused on books. [2] She graduated from Queen Mary University of London.
She worked in various roles in film and TV before becoming a director. I am Leah, her debut play, is set to premiere at the Camden People's Theatre in the Autumn of 2024. She is the co-founder of the Ishami Foundation, a charity that fights discrimination against refugees and immigrants in African countries. [3]
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