The New York-based Human Rights Watch, very recently has put out another report – which turns out to be just another of their hit jobs on Rwanda – with the…
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Regarding Social Media Wars, Why Can’t We Be More Like Nigerians, Kenyans?
by Shyaka Kanuma 2:26 pmI have a beef with my fellow Rwandans; a pretty serious one moreover! It has to do with social media wars, the question being, why do we so often allow…
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The actions of the government of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi against his country’s Kinyarwanda-speaking Tutsi communities can only become more genocidal, going by events in eastern DRC. At the same…
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American Academic Spitting Mad Due to British Journalist’s Book on Genocide Denialism
by Shyaka Kanuma 10:40 amA US academic, Susan Thomson has weighed in on the arrest of Paul Rusesabagina with a lengthy piece of writing that is titled “how not to write about the Rwandan…
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When I read The New York Times’ big article on the arrest of Paul Rusesabagina last Friday, I did so through the lenses of a student and practitioner of journalism.…
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It was a decade when Rwanda did great things. Of course when we say such and such an entity “did great things”, it is relative. Did great as compared to…
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Suddenly a lot of Rwandan manufacturers are smiling all the way to the bank! They have a lot of local customers streaming to their products who used to go for…
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I am intrigued every time I read somewhere that “Rwanda has a good image because of good PR.” A lot of that has been coming up lately, on social media…
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I’ve watched, fascinated, as Rwanda has forged itself a new identity over the past two and a half decades. I like to simplify the timeline; break it down into mini…
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The Myth Of Unromantic, Unfriendly, Obedient, Secretive, Reserved Rwandan
by Shyaka Kanuma 10:52 amStereotypes and clichés. They are quite interesting things. And we Rwandans have been saddled with more than our fair share of them, I tend to think. “Rwandans are secretive!” it…
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What is this thing happening in the United States? Or this other (similar) thing that’s taking place in the United Kingdom!? For a long time we were told that…
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Stepp’d in Blood, A Book Review: If an Akazu Member Killed You, or Took Your Wife by Force…
by Shyaka Kanuma 6:21 amWhat would a woman do if a big government official braked his vehicle beside her as she walked, and he told her to get into the car, drove off, then…