Tag: Rama Isibo
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East African Integration: Githeri And Matooke
East African Integration: Githeri And Matooke I consider myself a true East African, I have lived in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, and all the nations are special to me. I grew up eating Githeri, matoke and groundnut sauce, pilao and chapatti and sombe with fish, as well as speaking the languages of all countries.…
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Congo: The Dark Side Of The Digital Revolution
There has been so much said about Congo, the heart of darkness, the ghost of King Leopold, the footsteps of Dr. Kurtz, these stories still colour the opinions of many westerners as they try to understand what is a highly complex situation. They still conjure up a picture of cannibal tribes, savagery, children who need…
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Tribalism: Africa’s final frontier
Tribalism: What is a tribe? Tribes seem to be a basic fact of life in Africa. As Africans, we all belong to a tribe, or have one parent from one tribe and another from another. I remember trying to explain the concept of a tribe to a British…
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Agaciro
Agaciro Agaciro Kigali is a city that can convince you that you’re mad, the whole city can turn on you in unison, it is the essence of the herding instinct that is Rwandan culture. I try to fit in, to see it from the “Uniquely Rwandan” perspective. This perspective is vibrant, dynamic, colourful, Rwanda is…
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AFRICA, WHO ARE YOUR PROPHETS OF CHANGE?
Ideology died on November 10th 1989, under the weight of hammers and pick-axes, with the fervour of 44 years of rage and the assassins dressed in stone-washed jeans. As we all watched the Berlin Wall collapse and hands meeting across the divide, we never thought the price of freedom was the death of ideology. Thus…