Bankuwiha Etienne is a Ph.D. candidate of Nanjing University, Deputy Secretary General of China-Burundi Friendship Association, President of Burundi Chinese Translators Association, former native Chinese teacher of the University of Burundi, director of the Great Lake Confucius Classroom of the University of Burundi, director of Chinese education in primary and secondary schools in Burundi. He is mainly engaged in Sino-African comparative literature and cross-cultural, international Chinese education and Confucius Institute research. He published a monograph I Love to Learn Chinese and more than 10 papers in journals such as China-Africa Studies and African Great Lakes Research Center or mainstream media, and compiled a number of research reports, two of which were reprinted by the Chinese Embassy in Burundi and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.