Thoughts and Progress
Watching President Kagame interact with citizens during his monthly Citizen Outreach, like today’s interaction with the University of Rwanda inspired this piece. Before lecturing us about Democracy, show me a country: Where the President does citizen outreach every month; Where the President speaks and citizens trust that he is looking out for them 100%; […]
In Primary and Secondary school imwe were taught is the government of the people, for the people by the people. In fact if anyone got that question wrong in an exam, they would get some canes. As the President and some of us are bombarded with questions of what’s going to happen come 2017, […]
HOPE is something that I’ve never felt on April 7th. Thanks to the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA), the youth testimonies features on TV, especially the survivors and 21 year olds born at the time genocide, was truly inspiring. Those stories brought hope and a smile often as opposed to only pain, sadness and anger on […]
Troubled by the memory of my auntie and cousins, who’d been visiting us in Uganda as the tensions were rising in Rwanda ahead of the Arusha agreements. My auntie’s husband worked in the government and told her things were going well and that see and the kids should come back home. On April 3rd, 1994, […]