Thank you for the recent #CitizenOutreach tour, which brought to the general public eye what many of us, your people, already knew: below a certain level, governance in Rwanda is [ … ]
How To Phase Out Motos And Improve The Lives of Millions in #Rwanda
A few days ago, I vented on Twitter about my frustration with the situation of motorcycle (motos) taxis in this country. As with my previous threads about motos – I [ … ]
The Rwandan Model is an African Model
The 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in July 2017, elected Rwanda to lead the Union for a period of [ … ]
The East African’s content-free opinion piece on #Rwanda
An opinion piece published in The East African on Tuesday 12th September has brought that paper to a new low: according to Christopher Kayumba “Kagame faces two critical challenges in [ … ]
#NiWowe! #NiWowe! #NiWowe! (#KagameInauguration)
This year, 2017, has been a very special one for me, so far. So many wonderful things have happened. I got married! I’m expecting a baby! I voted for the [ … ]
The underlying racism behind western media’s anti-Rwanda hysteria
The implicitly racist language with which western media and “NGOs” spread their anti-Rwanda hate, the closer Rwanda gets to the 2017 presidential elections is deeply disturbing. There is a lie [ … ]
Manchester Review Issue 18: 21 Today: African Speculative Fiction
In 2015 I wrote a short story called “Mother’s Love“, which was longlisted for the Short Story Day Africa Prize. Tomorrow, Friday 21st July 2017, Mother’s Love will appear as [ … ]
A Surma girl scouting the Horsehead Nebula
There’s a picture I saw today of former astronaut Anna Lee Fisher, and also a picture of a Surma man. Suddenly, I got the idea to fire up The Gimp [ … ]
Labour, (un)Employment, Millennials and National Security
Yesterday, Tuesday 25th October, Rwandans on Twitter (#RwOT) were up in arms about statements attributed to the Minister of Labour. This led to a wider discussion about unemployment statistics and [ … ]
What if: Earth is a Farm for Dragon Food?
Why would a dragon let you ride it, though? I mean, it’s a DRAGON! We don’t ride crocodiles, either. What if we discover one day, that it was dragons who wiped out [ … ]