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Kigali Serena is deservedly #Rwanda’s Leading Hotel

The World Travel Awards were handed out yesterday in Seychelles and Kigali Serena emerged as Rwanda’s leading hotel.  As a Kigali City resident and a lover of all things great service, I can’t help but be proud of the Kigali Serena Team, led by the always humble and warm Country Manager – Charles Muia, who […]

“…Fight for what you believe in…”

Every year, Universities in most places choose a commencement speaker who is inspirational in some respect to impart wisdom on the graduating class. One of my favorites this year came from Mark Ruffalo, one of my favorite actors – you may know him as Hulk in The Avengers. Great wisdom and a challenge for all […]

Show me a democracy like #Rwanda

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%; […]

#Rwanda’s youth – our greatest HOPE 🙏

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 […]

Lying in Bed, hard to sleep…#Kwibuka21

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, […]