Posts Tagged ‘Kigali’
In Rwanda, bye bye bachelor’s degrees?
Yesterday, the Rwandan Ministry of Education announced that it may cut all scholarships for university students next year and instead funnel the money into primary education. The announcement came from the Minister of Education, Charles Muriganda, in a Kinyarwanda radio broadcast. A friend called me and told me about the broadcast, so I asked some [...]
Kigali grenade attacks: Journalistic choices in three acts
Act I, in which I am not a good authority on anything that happened last night No confusion: I didn’t cover the grenade attacks. Last night, I posted links to the work of a bunch of journalists who did — Hez Holland and David Kezio-Musoke/Reuters; Josh Kron/CNN International (last night, though oft with the NYT); [...]
Kigali Grenades: News Redux
If you do a Google News search for ‘kigali grenades,’ you’ll get nearly 1500 items right now. That includes a lot of bullshit, so here are the high points, which is to say, most of the real news stories. I suspect it’s most because I found them all on the first page of the Google [...]
Don’t look here for good news
Al Shabaab bombs Kampala threatens Bujumbura, which now feels like my second home. Journalists and political candidates are turning up dead in Rwanda. New fighting by the same old freaking people in eastern Congo sent 70,000 more people running. Meanwhile, Burundi apparently still can’t get its act together, and it’s dragged the East African Community into [...]
What women — and men — really want
When I walk to the main road, I try to give people I pass a friendly, “Good morning” or “Good afternoon” with my best pronunciation. Mostly I pass Rwandans, but this weekend a tall white man and I approached each other. For some reason, greeting white people makes me exceedingly shy — but I could [...]
Remembering the genocide: Three snapshots
I am hoping to put together a quick multimedia thing to share tomorrow or Friday. Meantime, here are three snapshots from today’s Walk to Remember and the memorial at Amahoro Stadium. A young man in the purple memorial scarf looks at the crowd preparing to walk from Parliament to the stadium. An old woman and [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [