Background
BWAKIRA, Melchior was born in 1937 in Kabuye, Bujumbura Province.
BWAKIRA, Melchior was born in 1937 in Kabuye, Bujumbura Province.
State University, Leningrad.
Ambassador
Bwakira served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and co-operation Minister of Transport, Telecommunications and Aeronautics (1972–1976). From 1978 to 1981 and from 1997 to 2001, Bwakira served as the Ambassador of Burundi to Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. From 1981 to 1986, Bwakira was the Burundian Ambassador to the United Nations (United Nations) in New York, to Cuba and Mexico.
Bwakira, at the age of 24, was the first African Director of Radio Burundi in the early 1960s.