A student’s journey to graduation day is a meandering route, inevitably beset with its fair share of pitfalls and obstacles. But some student journeys are charged with extra challenges, making the end result a remarkable achievement.
International Tourism and Hotel Management graduate, Esther Dusabe, falls into the latter category. She graduated from Griffith University in July at the end of a turbulent journey which started in her African homeland.
Esther had just completed primary school in her native Rwanda when civil war prompted her family to flee for their safety. During subsequent years in foreign countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, she gained a proficiency in local languages like Kirundi and Swahili, while also developing her English-speaking skills. In her formative years in Rwanda she had spoken Kinyarwanda, an official language which had recently come to prominence.
Role as interpreter
When she arrived in Australia in 2010 Esther’s multilingual skills opened
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