Why Women Should Be Running Africa

For a number of decades, Africa has been synonymous with political failure. There have been changes in rulership, changes in policies, and changes in priorities; but Africa remains at the bottom of the world. An ongoing failure demands not tweaking but rather a radical shift....

Lessons from Rwanda and Burundi

Burundi and Rwanda are sister countries. They were both part of a colonial administration district known as Urundi; and they possess the same ethnic makeup and very similar levels of population and land mass. After someone shot down the plane carrying the presidents of these...

Post-genocide Rwanda: Can You Love a Child of Rape?

" Post-genocide, Rwandan women raise the children of their attackers. The militias came in the evening and locked us in a house. Then they said they were going to rape us, but they used the word "marry." They said they were going to marry us until we stopped breathing. Every...

Rwanda Joins Commonwealth of Nations

Rwanda becomes another country outside of the sphere of the Commonwealth of Nations to join it. The first country was Mozambique in the 1990's. Louise Mushikiwabo who is the Information Minister is content and talked about the country's progress during the last 15...