Jo Ingabire Moys is a Rwandan-British writer, actress and director [1][2][3] whose debut short film Bazigaga was nominated for a BAFTA after a successful festival tour.
[4][5][6][7] She was born in the early 1990s, at the beginning of the Rwandan Civil War that involved the genocide of the Tutsi people by the Hutu ethnic majority in 1994.
[3][9] In 1997, when Moys was 8 years old, her school was attacked by militia forces of the former genocide regime who kidnaped the children of politicians.
I am Leah, her debut play, is set to premiere at the Camden People's Theatre in the Autumn of 2024.
She is the co-founder of the Ishami Foundation, a charity that fights discrimination against refugees and immigrants in African countries.