Bahati Kanyamanza
Cognoscenti contributor
Bahati Kanyamanza is a former refugee who spent about 25 years in a Ugandan refugee Camp and as a refugee in the U.S. before he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He is the global partnerships director at the International Refugee Assistance Project and co-founder of COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa. For over 20 years, he has advocated for the rights of refugees.
Recently published
The America that welcomed me 9 years ago was generous. Today's refugees deserve the same
For half a century, America has been a home for people fleeing persecution, for refugees like me, writes Bahati Kanyamanza. But the truth is that U.S. humanitarian assistance not only...
I grew up in a refugee camp. People like me deserve a voice in the UN
I lived in a refugee camp for 17 years. The most soul-destroying part was feeling that we didn't exist politically, writes Bahati Kanyamanza.