General Paul Kagame’s flip-flipping on education proves that he does doesn’t give a damn about human capital and the future of Rwanda’s young people. It is stating the most obvious to say that it is human capital that drives individual self-fulfilment and national socioeconomic development. To repeat, without human capital…

(Satire) The British government’s Chief Negotiator in Cash for Humans transactions, Suella Braverman, arrived in Rwanda to inspect the quarters where her merchandise will be housed. She was dazzled by the ultramodern facilities built by Africa’s most successful dealer in Cash for Humans, General Paul Kagame. …

In September 2020, the Rwandan strongman, General Paul Kagame publicly declared that the rendering of his critic, Paul Rusesabagina, was a “flawless operation.” During the subsequent two-year diplomatic efforts by the United States government to free Rusesabagina, who is a US permanent resident, the iron-fisted General doggedly refused to budge…

2022: “There isn’t anybody going to come from anywhere to bully us into something to do with our lives and we accept it.” General Paul Kagame 2023: “There is work going on to resolve the issue with Rusesabagina. We’re not people who want to get stuck in one place and not make any movement forward:” General Paul Kagame Stay tuned.

The 2022 Rwanda Labour Survey shows that the number of professional/scientific/technical workers in Rwanda is 15,523 in a country of 13.4 million people. The field of water supply/sewage/waste management has 4,392 workers. The electricity/gas/steam/air conditioning supply is populated by 1,606 workers. This is catastrophic. What has General Paul Kagame been doing in the past three decades? Stay tuned.

Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali is twice the size of Boston, USA. But Kigali does not have a sewer system. The cumulative raw sewage of 1.5 million Kigali residents flows through open drains, mixing with ubiquitous piles of garbage and wastewater. According to Rwanda’s Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC), over…

General Paul Kagame’s periodic bombast of weaning off foreign aid is back in the spotlight. He lectured in 2012 that Rwanda must stop begging for foreign handouts. He repeated the same thing in 2013 and more recently on February 28, 2023. He seems to have forgotten two things. First, in…

Voltaire, the great 18th century French writer and philosopher, who continues to be celebrated for his crusade against tyranny coined a phrase that helps explain General Paul Kagame’s Rwanda. To paraphrase Voltaire, states have an army, but in some cases this is reversed – it the army that has a…

Rama Isibo Rutimirwa is gone but will never be forgotten. Rama’s passing on reminds me of the words of William Shakespeare: “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” Shakespeare meant that an individual who lacks courage suffers the feared effects of death…