Ernest Nshemezimana is currently at the University of Burundi located in Bujumbura, capital city of Burundi. He obtained his master’s degree in linguistics from the Catholic University of Louvain in 2010, and was granted a scholarship to pursue his PhD studies at the University of Ghent, where he obtained his PhD in African Languages and Cultures in 2016. He has worked as a teaching assistant in the Kirundi-Kiswahili department at the University of Burundi since 2007 and returned after his PhD as a Lecturer teaching linguistics courses applied to Kirundi and Kiswahili. His research interests lie in the description and analysis of Bantu languages, with a focus on Kirundi.
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