Inamujandi was born in the mid-nineteenth century in a remote region near Ndora Mountain in northeast Burundi, in the modern province of Cibitoke.
Her early life is otherwise obscure, but she belonged to a long tradition of female prophets associated with the shrines of deceased Burundian kings.
Under her instigation and inspiration by her invocation of the demi-God Kiranga, the population of Ndora revolted in an attempt to restore the pre-colonial order.
"[2] She reportedly told her followers that the bullets of colonial forces would turn into grain or water, and that the trees themselves would eat their enemies.
Inamujandi's name was frequently invoked by Hutu partisans in the 1950s and 60s, and successive Burundian governments have presented her as an anti-colonial role model.