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With Every False Accusation, Kagame is Paying the Price for Standing Tall.

- January 18, 2024

Every false accusation directed at President Kagame is intended at damaging his standing as a responsible leader. President Paul Kagame. There has been an end less wave of accusations against President Paul Kagame . S ome accus e him of causing insecurity in DR Congo in order to plunder minerals while others accus e him of killing political opponents and abusing human rights, among a host of ill-deeds. For a while now, whenever the M23 re - emerges to fight for what it calls political oppression and Tutsi killings by the FDLR and satellite groups (and the FARDC sometimes) , DR C ongo authorities point fingers at Rwanda . The arrest of Victoire Ingabire in 2010 - for crimes of genocide ideolog y, divisionism and terrorist acts - was met with stiff oppositio n . When Rusesabagina, was upheld and prosecute d , his sympathizers called for his “immediate release” and claimed he had been “wrongfully detained” and that Rwanda’s ju dicial system was not free, so an unbi

SmartClass and the Changing Nature of Learning.

- January 17, 2024

As the World’s technology adoption continues at exponential rates and smartphone penetration grows rapidly, in Rwanda, SmartClass (https://www.smartclass.rw/) is building formidable tools for enabling affordable access to learning materials (rarely-available-books, past papers, topic-specific prerecorded video lectures) and career guidance among a suite of other essential learning facilitation tools. The State of the Current Classroom. In today’s classroom, the teacher is meeting students with knowledge about the topic the teacher is presenting on. The student has access to a host of tools which grant them access to limitless information about topics their teachers are teaching on. The current classroom is full of varying perspectives because of varying interpretations of information- the same information. The teacher’s and the school’s push for academic excellence is being challenged by unguided student access to information. The student has access to Artificial Intelligenc

Big-Brother Attitudes Derailing Africa’s Unity & Prosperity

- December 21, 2023

If two or more entities are bound to work together but some, among them, feel stronger and in a higher position, politically and economically, prospects for respectful relations and a unified standing on matters of common interest get threatened. Africa has, for many decades after colonial rule, been grappling with the need to unite in the fight against development challenges, neocolonialism, among other critical matters challenging the development of the continent. Major among the causes of the failure to unite is competing power games with some countries elevating their own interests and goals over those of the others (and the continent) despite there being a commonality of problems and pursuits. Some countries view themselves as democratic and so hold a disrespectful attitude towards others which they regard as “autocratic.” Other countries regard themselves as economic behemoths and so despise those they deem as of a lower economic status. Countries even boast of their land size

HOW LACK OF CLARITY OF IDENTITY IS KEEPING THE DRC IN A STATE OF WOE

- November 23, 2023

While Rwanda has been able to rebuild a unifying identity for all Rwandans, DR Congo, to date, remains unable to build a unifying identity for all communities on Congolese soil. The DRC has failed to determine whether Congolese Kinyarwanda-speaking Tutsi communities, put under the DRC during colonial demarcations of African borders, are legitimate Congolese with rightful claims to political rights and protections. Only societies which have achieved a clear and unified understanding of the identities of their separate units (communities) and how such identities tie the various communities close together and to the collective national identity, under which they exist, are able to chart and maintain a development path. Part of what continues to hold DRC back from its development potential is a confusion on national identity- beyond country name- which, in and by itself, is born of the failure of the Congolese society to have a clear sociopolitical identity. To understand this, take Rwanda

On Processes and Outcomes: The Case of Taxation.

- July 13, 2023

When the process of taxation is friendly to existing taxpayers, it creates room for the widening of the tax base as it favors and elicits enterprise. However, when the process of taxation is unfriendly to existing taxpayers, it limits room for the widening of the tax base. Note that it limits, it does not prevent When the reason for doing something is a future outcome whose success rate we cannot determine only in numbers, it is important to ensure that the way activities leading to the outcome are done is such that it elicits doing more of the thing(s) which lead to the desired outcome instead of things that give more of the desired outcome very fast. Take the example of tax revenues and the practice of taxation. Taxation is not an end in itself, rather it is a means to an end. While tax revenues are a finite goal, taxation is infinite- in that it exists forever, for as long as the nation within which it is conducted exists as an independent entity with financial needs. Giv

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