(1998) she recounts how she rescued her mother from the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi in July 1994.
[1][2] Corrêa was born in Rwanda,[3] to a Portuguese father and a Rwandan Tutsi mother.
[5] She presentedVanille Fraise, a 25-minute weekly program featuring a general knowledge game about sexuality, from its launch in November 1993 until February 1994.
[6] In May 1994 Corrêa attempted to draw attention to the unfolding Rwandan genocide with an article in the Swiss newspaper Le Nouveau Quotidien.
[2] Her 2018 novel À la lueur de la lampe-tempête (1998) tells the true story of Mario Augusto de Jesus du Valle Correia (Mario Corrêa), who in the late-19th century secretly freed a hundred slaves in the Portuguese colonies and ensured their exile to Angola.