Biography

Marie Grace Kagoyire Gasinzigwa is a PhD candidate at the Center for the Study of Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her work experiences are centred on researching on mental health and psychosocial support aiming at peacebuilding in post conflict societies. Her research interest focuses on understanding the legacies of the 1994 Rwandan genocide related trauma among older generations and its intergenerational impact among post-genocide youth.

Current Research Project

In her current research Grace explores how second-generation Rwandans construct the 1994 genocide memories. Using a narrative approach, this study highlights how young people who did not directly live through the 1994 genocide events make sense of its pervasive memories surrounding them, how these memories shape their psychosocial lives and how they navigate both the memories and its effects in searching for plausible meaning of all.

Supervisor: Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Email: kagograce@gmail.com | Tel: +27 (21) 808 4047

Recent publications

Journal Articles.

Ingabire, C., Kagoyire, G., Habarugira, N., Rutayisire., Richters, A. (2022). They tell us little and we end up being confused”: Parent–child communication on familial experiences of genocide and its aftermath in Rwanda. Transcultural Psychiatry 1–13. DOI: 10.1177/13634615221078483

Maggie Zraly & Grace Kagoyire (2021). Resilience and Ethics in Post-conflict settings: Kwihangana, living after genocide rape, and intergenerational Resilience in Post-genocide Rwanda. A book chapter in A.R. Dyer et al. (eds), Global Mental Health, ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66296-7_13

Kagoyire, G., Kangabe, J., Ingabire, M.C, (2023). A calf cannot fail to pick a colour from its mother”: intergenerational transmission of trauma and its effect on reconciliation among post-genocide Rwandan youth. BMC Psychology (2023) 11:104 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01129-y

Book chapters

Kagoyire, G., Vysma, M., & Richters, A. (2020). The ghosts of collective violence: pathways of transmission between genocide-survivor mothers and their young adult children in Rwanda. In K. Wale, P. Gobodo-Madikizela, & J. Prager (Eds.) Post-conflict hauntings (pp. 229-257). Palgrave Macmillan.