The Unity Quest

Judence Kayitesi is a Rwandan–German author, educator, and founder of Inzozi Publisher. Her work focuses on memory, identity, belonging, and the emotional journeys of individuals who live between cultures. With a strong narrative voice and a deep commitment to truth-telling, she writes stories that bridge personal experience and collective history. Kayitesi is the author of several acclaimed works, including A Broken Life, Resilience is a Choice, Unity Quest, and Letters to Forever. Her writing has been recognized for its emotional depth and its ability to speak to both individual readers and wider community conversations around healing and cross-cultural understanding. In addition to her writing, Kayitesi is trained as an early childhood educator and workshop facilitator. She develops programs that engage youth and families in dialogue around resilience, heritage, and rebuilding identity after trauma. She works actively within the Rwandan diaspora and educational communities in Germany. She currently lives in Germany with her family, where she continues to write, teach, speak, and build spaces for connection through literature and storytelling.
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Judence Kayitesi was born into a Tutsi family in Rwanda in 1983. The genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda took place in 1994 when she was 11 years old. She survived, seriously injured in the head by a machete, the period in which almost 1 million people, mostly Tutsi, were murdered in the most horrific ways in about hundred days. She lost her parents and many of her relatives and couldn't speak for four years. This influenced her entire life and continues to do so today. Judence Kayitesi is qualified educator for Children, workshop trainer and founder of INZOZI Publisher.
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