Prof. Deo S. Mbonyinkebe, PhD

Anthropologist, Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities, Rwanda Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Mbonyinkebe Sebahire Deo is an anthropologist and independent consultant in Rwanda. He is currently the chairman of the ACREOL Advisory Board and a Fellow of the Rwanda Academy of Sciences, Department of Social Sciences & Humanities. Mbonyinkebe was the former head of the Department of Social Sciences (Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics, & Management) at the University of Rwanda and a member of the Academic Senate. He lectured at the University of Kinshasa (DR, Congo), the University of Rwanda, and the Kigali Independent University from 1995–2014.

He focused on research and publications on religious anthropology, medical anthropology, genocide studies, and peacebuilding. He co-supervised three Ph.D. dissertations (Universite Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve and Universite de Liege) related to the reconciliation process, resilience, cooperative movement and peace, and peacebuilding in post-genocide Rwanda. He was a former member of the Master’s thesis committee and local supervisor on the topic: End-of-life decision-making of cancer patients in Rwanda, November 2020. He co-authors Theologies et Cultures, Melanges Offerts a Mgr—Alfred Vannest, and Ottignies and Home-Grown Solutions: A Legacy to African Generations.