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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 |
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Facts just won’t get into the way of a good story As the Rwandans went to the polls early last week the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, The New York Times and just about every international news organ kept informing their audiences that “the run up to the elections had been ‘marred’ by the barring of two opposition parties from contesting the presidential elections; the murder of an opposition party politician; the closure of two newspapers; the shooting of a dissident general in South Africa and the murder of a journalist who was ‘investigating that shooting’”. |
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
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Here’s a quiz: there is this country which has an important election this year. But all is not well: there have been acts of terrorism, opposition politicians have been arrested and even murdered, journalists have been killed, and a citizen of that country has been shot in South Africa. What is the country? |
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Monday, 31 May 2010 |
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Most Westerners don’t realize that in 1884 the Berlin Conference convened and the African continent was carved up by drawing lines on maps. European colonial powers, later endorsed by Americans, drew borders in some places where white explorers had not even set foot and they did so without regard to ethnic groups, language, local identities or even natural borders such as mountains, rivers and lakes. |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 |
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A letter from Mrs Jeannette Rwigema  My name is Mrs Jeannette Rwigema, wife of the late Fred Gisa Rwigema and mother to our two children.
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Saturday, 03 April 2010 |
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Genuine awards are based on merit, not payment I was quite amused when on Friday I read a story in The New Times under the headline Rwandan company wins prestigious award. Its first paragraph went as follows: “A Rwandan environment engineering firm [Air Water Earth, Rwanda (AWE)] has scooped an International Star for Leadership in Quality award, one of the most prestigious international awards given to companies worldwide for outstanding work.” |
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Monday, 29 March 2010 |
 By not living up to the terrorists’ expectations, but instead continuing with their life, Rwandans are thwarting the thugs’ scheme. |
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Opinion 