MBONANKIRA Gregoire

Academic rank: 
Lecturer
Academic Leadership Position: 
Former Head of Depertment
Email: 
g.mbonankira@ur.ac.rw
Telephone: 
+250788419133
College: 
College of Arts and Social Sciences(CASS)
School/centre: 
School of Arts and Languages
Department: 
Modern Languages
Published Papers : 

1. Mbonankira Gregoire (1998). Techniques of Satire in T.M. Aluko’ Novels. UNR. Butare (Unpublished Bachelor’s dissertation).

2. Mbonankira Gregoire (2005). Accommodation of loanwords into Kinyarwanda. University of Nairobi, Kenya (Unpublished Masters’ dissertation).

3. Ruterana, P.C, Mutwarasibo, F., Nsanzamahoro, F., Rwamasirabo, G., Mbonankira  G.,Ntawigira, P., & Uwiringiyimana, J.C. (2010). Lexique Trilingue Scolaire de Base: Francais- Anglais- Kinyarwanda. Butare: Editions de l’ UNR.

4. Mbonankira, Gregoire (2021). Contribution of Land Use Consolidation program on the Economic Development of Farmers in Nyamagabe District, Rwanda. https://www.academia.edu/63404060/.

5. Mbonankira Gregoire (2025). Rwandans’ attitudes towards non-indigenous official languages used in Rwanda. (PhD thesis in progress).

6. Citation; Celestin. R, Bernard. G, Gregoire. M, Abdoul-Kaliq. S. Causes and Effects of odeswitching Practices in Rwandan Healthcare System. Social Empowerment Journal. 2026; 8(1): pp. 64-76. https://doi.org/10.34118/sej.v8i1.4542.

7. Gregoire Mbonankira, Alfred Buregeya, Zipporah Otiso. Rwandans’ Attitudes Towards Swahili: An Occupational Perspective. (2026). Nordic Journal of African Studies, 35(2), 375–396. https://doi.org/10.53228/zhadgh26;

8. MBONANKIRA, G., Buregeya, A., & Otiso, Z. K. (2026). Exploring Kigali Traders’ Attitudes towards English in Commercial Interactions. Social Empowerment Journal, 8(2), 29-44. https://doi.org/10.34118/sej.v8i2.4660.

Brief profile: 
Gregoire Mbonankira is a Lecturer of Linguistics and Languages and a researcher at the University of Rwanda. He has two Master degrees: one in Arts (Linguistics) he obtained at University of Nairobi in 2005 and the second one in Business Administration (Project Management option) at UNILAK in 2015. He is now towards the end of his PhD research in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nairobi.
Research Area: 
Language, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Language Education. Research ID number (ORCID): https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9534-9529