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Le profil de Grace Rwaramba
By Raymond Baguma (source: New Vision)
The graves of Job Rwaramba (in a shade) and his son Philip at their ancestral home in
Beshenyi. Inset is Grace
GRACE Rwaramba, the woman who took care of Michael Jackson’s children for 12 years, was born and raised in Ishaka, Bushenyi district, in western Uganda.
Though she had lost her job as a nanny two months ago, Rwaramba is at the centre of a custody battle for Jackson’s three children who, after the death of their father, have reportedly requested for her return to the Los Angeles home.
Sources said 42-year-old Rwaramba had an increasingly central role in the children’s lives, who called her “Mum”.
Her close friends and schoolmates in Uganda describe her as friendly, good-natured and sociable. She grew up in a family of about 15 children.
Her father, Job Rwaramba, a medical worker at Ishaka Adventist Hospital, and mother, Magdalena Kinyogote, had fled to Uganda after the first troubles in Rwanda around 1960.
“She had many sisters who have since settled in the US,” a source told The New Vision.
“They all followed the elder sister, the late Teddy, who left Ishaka in the early seventies. Another sister, Rose, got married and settled in Fort Portal.”
Described as fluent in Runyankole, Rwaramba, who left for the US in the early 1980s, often returns to Uganda for private visits. She was reportedly here at the end of last year to visit relatives, some of whom live in Kasese, and stayed at Kampala’s Sheraton Hotel.
According to her former classmates, Rwaramba attended Ishaka Adventist Hospital Primary School and later moved to an undisclosed school in Kasese before joining her elder brother and sister in the US.
She went to high school in Connecticut and obtained a Bachelors degree in Business Administration at the Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts.
Her father died in 1980 and was buried at the family home in Ishaka. Her mother passed away two years ago upon returning to her native Rwanda.
The family homestead stands on a large acreage in Ishaka town.
Prominent is the main house, a recently renovated, self-contained bungalow. Near her father’s grave is the tomb of her brother, Philip.
Neighbours said the bungalow with electricity and piped water is occupied by tenants.
The UK’s Daily Mail reported that Rwaramba started working for his company in 1991, dealing with insurance for employees.
She is described as Michael’s most trusted employee. When his first child, Prince Michael Joseph Jackson Junior, was born in 1997, she became the boy’s nanny.
In the early days, she is thought to have had a short-lived romance with Jackson’s brother, Jermaine, although some American and British media reported that she had secretly married Michael.
It was later revealed that she wedded Stacey Adair in Las Vegas in February 1995. It is believed that she is still married to Adair since no record of a divorce has come to light.
Michael Jackson’s father, Joe, yesterday declared in the strongest terms that he and his 80-year-old wife have sole authority over the singer’s children.
Though she had lost her job as a nanny two months ago, Rwaramba is at the centre of a custody battle for Jackson’s three children who, after the death of their father, have reportedly requested for her return to the Los Angeles home.
Sources said 42-year-old Rwaramba had an increasingly central role in the children’s lives, who called her “Mum”.
Her close friends and schoolmates in Uganda describe her as friendly, good-natured and sociable. She grew up in a family of about 15 children.
Her father, Job Rwaramba, a medical worker at Ishaka Adventist Hospital, and mother, Magdalena Kinyogote, had fled to Uganda after the first troubles in Rwanda around 1960.
“She had many sisters who have since settled in the US,” a source told The New Vision.
“They all followed the elder sister, the late Teddy, who left Ishaka in the early seventies. Another sister, Rose, got married and settled in Fort Portal.”
Described as fluent in Runyankole, Rwaramba, who left for the US in the early 1980s, often returns to Uganda for private visits. She was reportedly here at the end of last year to visit relatives, some of whom live in Kasese, and stayed at Kampala’s Sheraton Hotel.
According to her former classmates, Rwaramba attended Ishaka Adventist Hospital Primary School and later moved to an undisclosed school in Kasese before joining her elder brother and sister in the US.
She went to high school in Connecticut and obtained a Bachelors degree in Business Administration at the Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts.
Her father died in 1980 and was buried at the family home in Ishaka. Her mother passed away two years ago upon returning to her native Rwanda.
The family homestead stands on a large acreage in Ishaka town.
Prominent is the main house, a recently renovated, self-contained bungalow. Near her father’s grave is the tomb of her brother, Philip.
Neighbours said the bungalow with electricity and piped water is occupied by tenants.
The UK’s Daily Mail reported that Rwaramba started working for his company in 1991, dealing with insurance for employees.
She is described as Michael’s most trusted employee. When his first child, Prince Michael Joseph Jackson Junior, was born in 1997, she became the boy’s nanny.
In the early days, she is thought to have had a short-lived romance with Jackson’s brother, Jermaine, although some American and British media reported that she had secretly married Michael.
It was later revealed that she wedded Stacey Adair in Las Vegas in February 1995. It is believed that she is still married to Adair since no record of a divorce has come to light.
Michael Jackson’s father, Joe, yesterday declared in the strongest terms that he and his 80-year-old wife have sole authority over the singer’s children.
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