{"id":53418,"date":"2025-03-16T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-grants-rwandan-citizenship-to-dj-ira\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:59:15","slug":"president-kagame-grants-rwandan-citizenship-to-dj-ira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-grants-rwandan-citizenship-to-dj-ira\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame grants Rwandan citizenship to DJ Ira"},"content":{"rendered":"

DJ Ira was among 8,000 people who attended a Presidential Citizen Outreach event held at BK Arena on Sunday, March 16, 2025. During the event, she expressed her gratitude to President Kagame for the warm welcome she had received in Rwanda and made a request to be granted Rwandan citizenship.<\/p>\n

She thanked the Head of State for Rwanda’s inclusive opportunities, noting how foreign children are given the same chances as Rwandan children. <\/p>\n

“I want to thank you for how a foreign child is given the same opportunities as any Rwandan child. I also want to thank you for how a girl child is given the same opportunities as a boy. I have found great blessings in this country. We often meet at various events, and when there\u2019s a dance, I\u2019m one of those who make people dance,” she remarked.<\/p>\n

DJ Ira then asked President Kagame if she could be granted Rwandan citizenship and officially become Rwandan.<\/p>\n

“My request is to ask for Rwandan citizenship so I can be considered a Rwandan child and be one of yours,” she said.<\/p>\n

President Kagame immediately agreed, confirming that the citizenship would be granted. He advised her to continue following the necessary procedures for acquiring Rwandan citizenship.<\/p>\n

“Have those responsible heard this? I\u2019ve granted it, and now just follow up on the remaining steps. The rest is simply a matter of following the process; what else can I say?” he remarked.<\/p>\n

DJ Ira is one of the top music mixers, a profession she began in 2016 with support from her cousin, DJ Bissosso, who played a key role in her rise to fame in Rwanda.<\/p>\n

DJ Bissosso introduced DJ Ira to Kigali in August 2015 after she completed her secondary education in Burundi.<\/p>\n

DJ Ira says she had aspired to follow in her cousin’s footsteps from a young age, but her family initially discouraged her, urging her to focus on her studies. After completing her secondary education, she began training in the profession she loves and is now one of the leading DJs performing at major events across Rwanda.<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame has granted Rwandan citizenship to popular Burundian disc jockey Iradukunda Grace Divine, popularly known as DJ Ira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000083701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000083701,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/14563f05-27a5-41bc-bc56-39e1e0987983.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/14563f05-27a5-41bc-bc56-39e1e0987983.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/14563f05-27a5-41bc-bc56-39e1e0987983.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/14563f05-27a5-41bc-bc56-39e1e0987983.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/14563f05-27a5-41bc-bc56-39e1e0987983.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/14563f05-27a5-41bc-bc56-39e1e0987983.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53418","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000083701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53418"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53418"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}