Daphrose Gahakwa
 Daphrose Gahakwa is a Rwandan politician who served as Minister of Education from 2008 to 2009.Gahakwa grew up in Uganda and graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelor of Science in 1996. She went on to earn an MSc in plant breeding (1996) and PhD (2001) from the University of East Anglia in England. Her PhD was entitled Molecular and Biochemical Studies of Transgene expression in Rice and Maize.