Society

About 35 years ago, Kayitesi Immaculée was among students sitting for National exams at Ecole Technique Feminine de Nyanza, a high school in Southern Rwanda. Due to the discriminatory policy against…

In 2009, Mukeshimana Liberata was a desperate house wife raising her five children. Her husband the family bread winner was earning from carpentry. According to Mukeshimana, her family could not get…

Parfaite Mugisha was born a normal baby, but at the age of 10 suffered from measles, and didn’t get treatment which resulted in inability to walk. Mugisha 26 years old,…

For two weeks in November 2011, twelve editors from some of the biggest media in the United States crisscrossed Rwanda. My employer at the time charged me with the task…

Father Ubald Rugirangonga, a Catholic Church priest known in Rwanda for  reconciliation and healing messages has launched a documentary film narrating how his community achieved forgiveness after the 1994 Genocide…

Odette Karanguza and Alice Kabagire Cyusa have been childhood friends, studied in the same school but also suffered and defeated a similar deadly disease – Cancer. In 1987, both Karanguza…

Starting tomorrow Gisimba memorial centre, an orphanage that consoled many while they were in need before, during and after the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi will change its mandate, but will…

The old English adage ‘age is just a number’ may not hold any meaning until you meet Senator Tito Rutaremara, a Rwandan senior citizen who has served Rwanda in numerous…

At 72 years many people would be thinking about retirement. But Linda Bootherstone-Bick, a British national will next week celebrate her anniversary while planning to board a motorbike and ride…

It is Tuesday evening in Kigali city Center; everybody is busy finding their way home after a long day’s work. A walk to the city’s downtown bus terminal; people are…

Vedaste Nzabamwita 32, a farmer in Susi Sector of Ngororero district did not have the chance to go to college but he swore to have literate children. Nzabamwita, a father…

When Charlotte Rulinda a.k.a Charly and Fatuma Muhoza a.k.a Nina met in 2010 at Hotel Milles Collines, no one knew, not even them that they would achieve what they have…