Lonzen Rugira

The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi imposed conditions of soul searching on the nation. The luxury of business as usual in state management was not going to rebuild a state burnt to the ashes. Neither was outsourcing agency by copy and…
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I have written in the past of the need to grow a conscientious critical mass of Africans that believes in and defends the idea that the African way of life – who we are, what we aspire to be, and how to go about pursuing these aspirations –…
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There is a resurgence of denial of the genocide against the Tutsi, which is gradually morphing into a security concern not only for Rwanda but for the geo-strategic calculus in the region. At the heart of this resurgence is a young,…
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Africa remains a paradox: a land of poverty amidst plenty. On the one hand are the resources, in abundance, that industries in the developed world depend on and the opportunities that they provide for the people there – making Africa an…
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A recent article by a fellow columnist on this platform, Dr Moses Khisa, titled “Reclaiming the Pan-African Agenda” had me thinking about the first line of the article: “Pan-Africanism has lately become the object of derision and…
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The African state, with origins in Berlin, was founded with the raison d’être of serving the interest of the mother country in Europe. The primary failure of the postcolonial political leadership in Africa is its inability to reorient the…
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Part of the problem facing Africa is that the agency to articulate the trials and tribulations of Africans has for long been usurped by foreigners. As a principle, everyone should get involved in debates on Africa, of course. However,…
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On December 22, Nic Cheeseman, a British academic, tweeted “The conflict in Ethiopia demonstrates what many already new (sic): authoritarian development is a bad bet in Africa: Aid models should change to stop channelling so much money to…
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