Denise Bucumi-Nkurunziza

Denise Bucumi-Nkurunziza
Nkurunziza in 2014
First Lady of Burundi
In office
26 August 2005 – 8 June 2020
PresidentPierre Nkurunziza
Succeeded byAngeline Ndayishimiye
Personal details
Born
Denise Bucumi

(1969-12-01) 1 December 1969 (age 54)
Gatsinda, Mwumba, Ngozi Province, Burundi
Political partyNational Council for the Defense of Democracy
Spouse
(m. 1994; died 2020)
Children6

Denise Bucumi-Nkurunziza (born 1 December 1969) is a Burundian ordained minister who was First Lady of Burundi from 2005 to 2020 as the wife of Pierre Nkurunziza. She is the only ordained minister who has served as a first lady of any African nation.[1]

  1. ^ "In Madagascar ex-First Lady runs for mayor; in Zimbabwe Grace Mugabe goes into ice cream and chocolate". Mail & Guardian. 2015-05-16. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2017-10-15.