Godgiven

Dieudonné M. Ndinda was born on April 15, 1955 at Busenene, a remote village in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. His is the first born of a family of seven children and grew up in the cities of Bambo and Bukombo, near Birambizo. After his primary school at the Birambizo Catholic Elementary School, Dieudonné was admitted to the Saint Mary Institute of Rugari where he completed his Middle School in 1969. He then moved to the Saint Jean Bosco Institute, currently Busimba Institute, in the city of Jomba where he obtained a State High School Diploma in psycho-pedagogy in 1973.

Dieudonné pursued his higher education at the National University of Zaïre, Campus of Kinshasa, where he earned a Bachelor Degree in Applied Economics in 1977. At the age of 22, Dieudonné began a long career in accounting and auditing which saw him occupy various managerial positions in the region of the Central Africa Great Lakes until when the Democratic Republic of Congo plunged into a bitter war that drove the country into a veritable nightmare in which, unfortunately, he found himself trapped in 1998. After a year in prison in extremely inhuman conditions, just for his ethnic background, the Government of the United States came to his rescue, along with many other misfortune companions. In 2000, Dieudonné was settled in Nashville, Tennessee where his family joined him in 2002. And in 2005, Dieudonné became an American Citizen. Unfortunately, in 2008 he lost his wife, Mama Caritas Rwigema Rukundo, to whom he was married for 27 years and with whom he got five wonderful children. In the USA, Dieudonné got a chance to go back to school, earned an MBA Summa Cum Laude degree, secured good jobs, first at Bank of America and then at the Government of the State of Tennessee. He is now happily remarried to his wife Thérèse Uwambaye, and a proud grandpa.