Turkey and Africa are Building a Solid Partnership
As Turkey marks the annual Africa Day, I take the opportunity to celebrate Africa’s achievements and rejoice in our developing partnership. Africa’s ascendancy makes all Turks proud and motivates us to engage in closer ties and cooperation. Political institutions around Africa are...Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 10:10am
The Arsenal deal is the sure deal
Rwanda Development Board (RDB) has carried out a major coup that is the talk of the internet. It has landed a sponsorship deal with one of the world’s largest and most famous football clubs; Arsenal. The mere mention of the deal was a mediatic triumph as it was widely reported on mainstream...Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 4:58am
The world according to Trump and Xi
NEW DELHI – The world’s leading democracy, the United States, is looking increasingly like the world’s biggest and oldest surviving autocracy, China. By pursuing aggressively unilateral policies that flout broad global consensus, President Donald Trump effectively justifies his...Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 4:13am
The expatriate privilege
At what stage does one wake up and everything the government and people of a nation does is bad, stupid and nonsensical? At what point do we catch ourselves, reflect and realise that there is often more than meets the eye when it comes to running a country; especially one that has had wars? What...Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 3:04am
The African century
We’ve all heard stories of ‘Africa rising’ at times, and ‘afro-pessimism’ at other times, without grasping exactly what all that means. To be clear, corruption and bad leadership won’t feature in my story because they are permanent features in all five continents...Wednesday, May 23, 2018 - 6:17am
Editorial: Kagitumba has gone 24hrs, what are others waiting for?
Despite the recent toll on East Africa’s trade infrastructure where heavy rains swept away bridges, cut off roads and caused severe flooding, the ease of doing trade has been growing day-by-day. One of the objectives of the two protocols of the East African Community – the Common...Wednesday, May 23, 2018 - 1:36am
Learning from America’s forgotten default
LOS ANGELES – One of the most pervasive myths about the United States is that the federal government has never defaulted on its debts. Every time the debt ceiling is debated in Congress, politicians and journalists dust off a common trope: the US doesn’t stiff its creditors. There...Tuesday, May 22, 2018 - 5:55am
Until we respect the profession, expect bad customer service
There is a notion that working in customer service is ‘too low’ for some. And it is unfortunate that we add weight to that misguidance. We don’t assign any respect to jobs within customer service, and therefore indirectly strip the sector and those that work within it, from the...Tuesday, May 22, 2018 - 5:37am
Africa should strive to get it right this time
When the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was set up on May 25, 1963 there was a load of hope among many African leaders. Many countries were still having teething problems experimenting with independence. Africa at that time had some heavyweights such as Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah...Tuesday, May 22, 2018 - 5:37am
The old allure of new money
NEW HAVEN – The crypto currency revolution, which started with bitcoin in 2009, claims to be inventing new kinds of money. There are now nearly 2,000 crypto currencies, and millions of people worldwide are excited by them. What accounts for this enthusiasm, which so far remains unhampered by...Tuesday, May 22, 2018 - 5:04am
Editorial: Local leaders can replicate Gatsibo village success
In May last year, a small village in Gatsibo District made headlines after it emerged that it had not recorded a single crime since the beginning of 2017. Kagarama village in Gitoki Sector, Gatsibo was declared a ‘crime free’ village thanks to a homegrown initiative known as ‘...Monday, May 21, 2018 - 3:12am
Where the water is
HAMILTON, CANADA – In many parts of the world, there are simply no more conventional freshwater resources available to meet growing demand. Beyond limiting economic development, the lack of sufficient freshwater resources threatens the wellbeing of billions of people by causing conflict,...Monday, May 21, 2018 - 2:18am
Rwanda’s new Income Tax Act and the taxation of share transfer transactions
April 2018 saw significant legal changes on the Rwandan business and tax scene, from the enactment of a new Companies Act (Law No 17/2018 of 13/04/2018 governing companies), to the enactment of Law No 016/2018 of 13/04/2018 establishing taxes on income (the “new Income Tax Act”). While...Monday, May 21, 2018 - 2:12am
Floods, droughts and resilience
The raging rain season has seen media awash with news on floods and its consequences as well as a speculative possibility of droughts in the months ahead. What a dilemma! My article today focuses on one of the most crucial basic need in humanity – water. It touches on the presence and...Monday, May 21, 2018 - 1:24am
BK Group choice to cross-list on Nairobi Stock Exchange, brave!
After chairing the shareholders’ Annual General Meeting on Friday in Kigali, which among others, voted to Cross-list the BK Group shares on Nairobi Stock Exchange, Board Chairman Marc Holtzman flew to New York, one of several capital markets that had been eyed as options. Kenneth Agutamba...Sunday, May 20, 2018 - 3:00am
How to turn that hobby into a thriving business
Do you have a hobby that people line up for to buy from you? If so, you really could create a profitable business. Hobbies that could potentially be monetised and turned into businesses include painting, woodworking, baking, web design, dog training -- literally anything that provides value to...Sunday, May 20, 2018 - 2:54am
The ‘apps’ and downs of public transport in the EAC region
Transport in East Africa is one of the topics that attract my interest easily. This is mainly because movement of people and goods has always been one of the core pillars of the whole East African integration agenda pushed by our leaders. I am sure you have noted the glamour each time any of them...Sunday, May 20, 2018 - 2:12am
Editorial: Rwandan companies should venture where the money is
Bank of Kigali (BK) is not pulling any punches of late. It started a couple of months ago when celebrating its 50th anniversary. It made the wishes of some of its customers come true as a show of appreciation. But before that, it completely overhauled itself. It morphed into several entities in...Sunday, May 20, 2018 - 2:06am
Let’s pay more attention to the music curriculum in our schools
There’s general acknowledgement that music is not only good for its own sake, but has attributes that may improve a child’s abilities in learning and dexterity in other tasks. One only needs to recall the nursery rhymes or the songs by generation after generation of children on the...Saturday, May 19, 2018 - 3:24am
Is big tech destroying retail markets?
WASHINGTON, DC – Information technology is not just transforming markets; it is also making them ubiquitous, particularly for household consumers. From pretty much anywhere in the world, one can now search out goods and services, compare prices from multiple sellers, and give detailed...Saturday, May 19, 2018 - 2:24am
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