No. 1 in Central Africa »
Roto Tanks are number 1 in Central Africa, apparently. At least they are according to this quincaillerie in downtown Kigali. It’s not just in Central Africa they’re popular, but over in Ethiopia too – on roundabouts in the centre of Addis Ababa. I’d never heard of Roto Tanks before I moved to Kigali, but pretty [...]
Get on your wooden bike »
Rwanda’s third annual wooden bike classic will take place tomorrow, November 25, at the Amahoro Stadium over a distance of 40km. Participants compete on the ingenious wooden bicycles, that reportedly come from Musanze province but are widespread throughout East Africa; from Goma in the DRC to Uganda and they even appear in the National Museum [...]
Talking wires… »
I was working in London and Austria last week and I was asked to give a talk about how online distribution and collaboration might work. Here are the slides I used during the presentation referring to Kigali Wire. I wish I had more time to develop this site. Definitely something I want to focus [...]
From something worse than zero »
Phillip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, and Joseph Sebarenzi, former speaker of the Rwandan parliament, talked with CNN last week about Rwanda’s development since the 1994 genocide, the upcoming election in August, 2010 and hopes and fears for the future. You can watch [...]
Esther Heavens photos from Rwanda »
Freelance photographer Esther Heavens visited Rwanda in 2008 and took a series of great shots including the one above of a girl sheltering from what looks like an ominous sky. I did ask Esther to tell me a little bit more about the picture, who is in it and when and where it was taken [...]
From the kitchen to the volcanoes »
Freelance videographer David Smith recently spent a bit of time in Rwanda filming a documentary for an NGO. In between work he managed to pop up to meet the Gorillas in Volcanoes National Park and to take a series of still images including the one above – “In the Kitchen” – that caught my eye. [...]
There’s something missing »
I was just about to jump into this taxi on the outskirts of downtown Kigali earlier today when I noticed the front tyre pictured above. The rears weren’t much better. It wasn’t raining and I fancied a thrill, so I hopped in. I wonder what his chances of passing his next MoT are…
Yankees “spotted” in central Kigali »
The New York Yankees, who won a baseball competition misleadingly called The World Series earlier this week, may be pleased and surprised to find they have at least one fan in Rwanda. In our continuing series of minibuses come poster campaigns, come artmobiles, come advertising campaigns, see exhibit 2 above – The Yankeesmobile in central [...]
On and off the road »
I’ve been on and off the road much of the week driving up to the Ugandan border and back down to Kigali. Unfortunately, I didn’t use the camera as much as I had hoped. I took the shot above on a rainy day, through a muddy windscreen on an iPhone as we made our way [...]
