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RWANDA, EDUCATION, LIFE and EVERYTHING

  • Kids and cameras

    Making myself redundant at Ntenyo school, south of Gitarama.

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  • Road rage in Rwanda

    WE”VE BEEN DRIVING OURSELVES in Rwanda for about a week now. There are definitely some challenges: driving on the right, the orderly chaos at roundabouts, the smoke blowing snail race as cars and bikes four or five abreast, many with clapped out engines, try to inch past each other up steep hills, with little apparent concern for oncoming traffic. And a

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  • Tourism: Akagera National Park

    TOOK A ONE DAY BREAK in the beautiful Akagera National Park. Rusizi Tented Camp was officially opened on March 26 this year, and is a huge leap for Rwandan tourism in the area. Couldn’t recommend it more highly: dinner by firelight on a deck at the edge of Lake Ihema with monkeys, birds and hippos shrieking, grunting and puffing all around.

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  • Filming the media

    WHAT DO YOU THINK OF RWANDA? What message do you have for Rwandans on this 19th anniversary of the genocide? Sally being interviewed outside the Rwandan Parliament on the 19th anniversary of the genocide by East Africa TV.

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  • The danger of the single story

    Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice, and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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  • “They should still be here”

    The Irish writer and journalist Fergal Keane, who travelled through Rwanda as the genocide was ending said, “this is not a subject for fine words.” Yet the memorials, selected writings and simple descriptions by Rwandans are both beautiful and intensely moving.

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  • First impressions

    WELL IT’S GOOD FRIDAY and we’ve just finished breakfast. It’s pretty packed at the Good News Guesthouse this morning. There’s a team of medical volunteers on their way back to Alabama after several weeks in a hospital in south-west Rwanda, another group of Americans who spent yesterday tracking the gorilla in the north, and a couple of Germans just passing through.

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  • First female commercial pilot

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