The Perspective

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...

  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 w...

First, selling live-audio as a Unique Selling Proposition assumed people's willingness and availability for continuous talk. That is contrary to realities of post-industrial revolution World. People talked for so long during the lockdown because they were locked away in their homes and had all the time. Post lockdown, how many can have time for constant live talk? First, Clubhouse    In the middle of the COVID-19 Worldwide lockdown, a new social app was born. The app promised to change the way-of-social-media by introducing audio features which would take the place of text- common with famous social media platforms. That App was Clubhouse- a live-audio social platform. Backed and hyped by a16z and Marc Andreessen, Clubhouse became the hype of the day. Everyone wanted in on the new app, except, of course, the laggards who come so late to the show. I joined in early on. I attended the famous talk sessions with Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. I also attended many other ...

  As norm demands, agreements must be kept in good faith. By failing to fulfill their obligations as agreed upon in peace talks, authorities in Kinshasa act in bad faith. And every moment they fail to act in good faith, strides made towards achieving lasting peace in both the DRC and the re gion are derailed.    EACRF and M23 negotiate Since the resurgence of the M23 last year, the East African Community has taken initiative and committed immense efforts towards ending the security crisis in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Summits have been held at both the East African Community and South African Development Cooperation levels to end the predicament.   At each of the summits held, conclusions were reached with recommendations made for each side of the warring parties to fulfill specific obligations to allow for a political resolution of the conflict.    The government of the DRC has failed to fulfill most of its own share of the requiremen...