{"id":40749,"date":"2020-01-22T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/linguist-vuningoma-funeral-arrangements-out\/"},"modified":"2020-01-28T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:01:16","slug":"linguist-vuningoma-funeral-arrangements-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/linguist-vuningoma-funeral-arrangements-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguist Vuningoma funeral arrangements out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Vuningoma&#8217;s funeral is scheduled for January 25th, 2020. His body will be collected from King Faisal Hospital where he passed on at 8:30 A.M. <\/p>\n<p>A memorial service will be held at his home in Kacyiru at 11:00 P.M, funeral mass from 1:00 to 3:00 P.M at Giporoso, Remera Anglican Church while his burial and committal service will be held at Rusororo at 4:00 P.M.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Vuningoma was a veteran linguist and a Rwandan culture enthusiast. He obtained a Ph.D. in African Studies at France\u2019s University of Nice in 1989, a Master of Arts Degree from Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux III in 1982 and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Makerere University in Uganda in 1974. After his doctorate studies, he served as a lecturer at Kigali Independent Institute (KIE) in African Studies and later on as Vice-Rector in charge of Academics.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as editor-in-chief at The New Times.<\/p>\n<p>On January 18th, 2018, Dr. Vuningoma was appointed member of Media High Council (MHC).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34568 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dr-vuningoma-james-6b87d.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Vuningoma&#039;s funeral is scheduled for January 25th, 2020. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 20th, 2020, Rwanda lost 72-year-old Dr. Vuningoma James, a linguist who served as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda Academy of Languages and Culture (RALC) since its foundation in 2012. He had returned back to Rwanda a week ago from India, where he had gone for hypertension treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40749"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40749"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}