Top Rwandan Model And Actress Gets Stabbed To Death By Housemaid (Photos)

Rwandan celebrated model, dancer and actress Alexia Uwera Mupende has died after she was reportedly stabbed by a housemaid.

Mupende,
35, died on Tuesday evening at her father’s home in Nyarugunga Sector,
Kicukiro District in Rwanda, according to Rwandan newspaper, ‘The New
Times’.

News of the celebrity’s demise first emerged on social
media with a message calling on members of the public to help arrest her
alleged killer, a 23-year old house-maid who worked at their home. The
suspect has been identified as Niyireba Antoine.

Mupende’s death would later be confirmed by Modeste Mbabazi, the spokesperson of Rwanda Investigation Bureau.

Mupende
was the General Manager of Waka Fitness, an up market fitness club in
Kimihurura, a City of Kigali suburb. Here, she supervised the customer
service desk but was also involved in sales, marketing and events
management.

The model was due to be wedded on February 16 to lover, Allan Rwamo Kweli.

She has represented Rwanda at numerous modelling and fashion shows on the continent and beyond.

In
2015, she represented Rwanda at the 3rd edition of the Africa Fashion
Show Geneva (AFSG) in Switzerland, becoming the first Rwandan model to
grace the runway of AFSG.

Her desire in her fashion career was to
change the skewed narrative that Africa is about hunger, children
starving, war and corruption.
She sought to share with the world
about Africa using Africa’s talent and the fashion materials most of
whose origin is in Africa.

She felt that Africa had a central place in the global modelling and fashion industry.

Her
Twitter bio read; “Rwanda’s premier model… My prayer is to become
Africa’s next top model.. so am gona work on my size and touche”.

In
November of 2015, she together with three other budding Rwandan models;
Jeanine Dusabe, Rachel Uwineza, and Umutoni Georgette, took part in the
annual Kampala Fashion Week.

Mupende was also an actress and she
travelled to Colombo, Sri Lanka in January 2016 and to India in
February of the same year, as part of the cast of ‘Dear Children
Sincerely’, a Mashirika Performing Arts and Media Company stage
Production in collaboration with Stages Theatre Group from Sri Lanka.