Mo-Mamo Karerwa

Mo-Mamo Karerwa is a Burundian educator, school administrator, and politician. Trained as a teacher, when ethnic violence broke out in 1993, she founded the Magarama II Peace Primary School. The curricula of the school, which taught students from the age two through sixth grade, followed the government mandated courses for half of the day and taught conflict resolution and how to live in peace for the remainder of the school day. She developed a curriculum which taught children's rights and examined Burundian history and culture as a path to a peaceful future. The curriculum was adopted by sixteen schools in the Gitega Province and she was appointed as the primary school teacher representative to the Provincial Education Council in 2003.

In 2010, Karerwa was elected to the National Assembly as a representative of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy (NCDD-FDD) party. When the members were installed, she was unanimously elected as first vice president of the lower parliamentary house. She was re-elected in 2015, but resigned when she was elected in 2017 to serve as one of Burundi's representatives in the 4th term of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). EALA is a regional parliamentary body with representatives from Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. She was elected to serve on the EALA commission, the administrative body for EALA for the 4th session and re-elected to both the EALA and the commission in 2022 for the 5th assembly.