Vincent Gasana

 “The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” wrote the great Russian writer and philosopher, Fyodor Dostoevsky. By this measure, many countries of the …

More and more diverse cultures are calling Rwanda home, this can mean celebrating the usual events at unexpected times, so according to the Chinese Lunar calendar Happy New Year, in …

 “History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again” so said American writer and poet, Maya Angelou, who could almost have …

Rwanda is news, and being miscast can come with the territory, but it has come to a point where to understand the country as it actually is, it is necessary …

Nothing is really ever sudden, even thunder and lightning have a process. Perhaps the recent fine sentiments from President Yoweli Museveni are a precursor to normalisation of relations between Rwanda …

In a popular café in Rwanda’s capital Kigali, a mixed group of about ten, have turned their seats to face a large television screen. All around the busy café, other …

They are young, eager, all female, and the next software for your mobile telephone Application, may well be programmed by them. They are WeCode graduates, an initiative launched by the …

Fifteen million, the number of people whose lives have been claimed by AIDS, in Africa so far. Eight thousand, the number of people from across the world, who over the …

For the last two weeks, the island of almost every Kigali roundabout has been circled by green, and orange flags, bearing the letters PSF (Private Sector Federation) and Made in …

“Hullo, excuse me,” said the young woman, smiling apologetically, as she exited the men’s lavatory, “I was making sure everything was fine here”, she explained. She is an employee of …

Last week, Rwanda hosted the global gender summit, at the Kigali Convention Centre. Among the numerous subjects discussed was gender-based violence. Rwanda is justifiably hailed as a leading nation in …

“Home grown solutions” is what Rwanda calls an approach that is rare in Africa, development that is channelled through African countries’ own culture and history. Unnoticed, one suspects even by …