Dr. Alexandre Kimenyi is a Professor of Linguistics, Ethnic Studies and African Languages at California State University, Sacramento. Born in Rwanda, Alexandre left in 1971 to continue his education at UCLA as Fulbright Fellow. He planned to return to Rwanda and aid in the development of his country. Unfortunately, due to the massacre of the Tutsi people in 1973 and the 1994 Tutsi genocide, almost all of his friends and family members have been murdered. He joined the University in 1976 after receiving his PH.D in linguistics from UCLA. He has since become a U.S. citizen.

Although a linguist by training and profession, he has also conducted research in ethnic studies and genocide, and Holocaust studies. Outside the classroom, he has authored four books on linguistics and has also co-edited a book on genocide. His linguistic articles have been published in international journals such as La linguistique; Linguistics; Anthropological Linguistics; Studies in African Linguistics; Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, and Education, Science and Culture. Others have appeared in conference proceedings. He has also contributed to World's Languages Linguistic Encyclopedias.

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