Bokassa le miraculé
Eddy Rubakana
2004 - 28 min - Burundi

This film is the story of a witness named Victor Nibigirwe alias Bokassa: he has a ruthless struggle against AIDS.
In 1980, Aged 22, his great interest for beautiful girls and alcohol dragged him into nightlife where he unfortunately got AIDS.
Since his HIV infection grew fast, his friends and relatives give him money to be treated abroad. During two years, he benefited from intensive healthcare in the Hospital of Nimes in France. Thanks to solidarity, he made it.
Back in Burundi, his native country, several persons who saw him dying was very surprised to see him in good shape, a person who miraculously survived. What is the most moving is the message he is carrying to his countrymen.
Bokassa is one person who positively lived with HIV and who committed himself to help others in this fight against AIDS.
Single, he has a fiancée and an adoptive girl, who is the orphan of the woman who could have been his first wife.