Anne Aghion talks about gacaca film »
Annie Aghion talks to the BBC about her recently released film, My Neighbor My Killer which documents the experience of the gacaca court system in one Rwandan community following the 1994 genocide. You can listen to the 10 minute interview with BBC World Service reporter Matthew Bannister below.
Taylor Krauss on Voices of Rwanda »
Taylor Krauss talks with Committee on Conscience Project Director Bridget Conley-Zilkic on the Voices of the Genocide podcast about his Voices of Rwanda project. The project aims to document the stories of the survivors of the Rwandan genocide. You can listen to the podcast online. No time to listen? Here’s the transcript.
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Capturing courage through the lens »
Ray Tollison is a photographer based in Fort Collins, Colorado. He visited Rwanda recently to work with World Relief. During his trip Ray focused on portrait images and he published a selection of those photos on his Flickr account. They’re some of the best images of Rwanda that you’ll find on Flickr. Following on from [...]
The newest beer on the block »
Launched in October, 2009, coming in a 72cl bottle and packing a powerful 6.5% alcoholic content, Turbo King from Bralirwa, is Rwanda’s heaviest, newest and darkest beer. It’s a thick brown, chocolatey number with a soft, bitter bite, tasting far less alcohol heavy that the labeling would have you believe. Having said that, it is [...]
Astronaut brings clean water to Rwanda »
Manna Energy Limited and Engineers Without Borders-USA are bringing clean water to rural Rwanda. As part of the Global Water Challenge, Manna - a social enterprise developed by the Manna Energy Foundation and founded by NASA astronaut Ron Garan – have installed a water treatment system at the L’Esperance orphanage in Kigarama. It is now [...]
Intended Consequences »
While I’m talking about films… I thought I’d also drop this onto the blog. Intended Consequences is a superb MediaStorm production released in 2008. It focuses on the experiences of Rwandan women during the 1994 genocide and tells their stories through photographs and oral narrative. It was produced by Jonathan Torgovnik. It’s a very well [...]
My Neighbour My Killer »
There is be a free screening of Annie Aghion’s documentary film My Neighbour My Killer at Heaven Restaurant in Kiyovu this coming Sunday Dec 13 at 7pm. The film focuses on the local Gacaca court system which has been used to try to bring a form of justice to Rwanda following the 1994 genocide. The [...]
Simon Sticker puts Rwanda in the picture »
Simon Sticker is a photojournalist based in Cologne, Germany. He visited Rwanda recently to work on a variety of photographic projects, most notably the With Our Eyes project which aims to help Rwandan people tell their own stories with fairly basic, readily available equipment. I asked Simon a little about his work, his impressions of [...]
The Rwandan Grand Prix »
YouTube sensation Matt Harding of Where the hell is Matt? fame was in Kigali last month. He filmed the action track side from what must have been the inaugural Rwandan Grand Prix although there were no motorbikes like the ones above involved. Watch the video below to see what I mean. It was filmed during [...]
Riding through Kacyiru »
I was riding through Kacyiru yesterday on a beautiful, sunny day when I took this photograph with my phone from the back of a mototaxi. It’s a little dark and brooding, but there’s something about it I quite like. Perhaps it’s the curvature of the cobbled road, which are common on this side of Kigali. [...]
