Commentary

OVER the course of the last few weekends, I have had the opportunity to see quite a bit of the country side, joy riding from the city to places as disparate as, and you’ll forgive me for the use of their old names (the new names do not roll off the tongue or the keyboard as easily), Butare, Kibuye, Kayonza, Bugesera (all the way to the border with Burundi) and the ancestral home of one of my parents. A little hamlet outside Kabuga called Muyumbu.

WITH daily headlines focusing on war, terrorism, and the abuses of repressive governments, and religious leaders frequently bemoaning declining standards of public and private behavior, it is easy to get the impression that we are witnessing a moral collapse. But I think that we have grounds to be optimistic about the future.