Sunday Magazine

Dreadlocks have been a stigmatised hairstyle for a very long time in most societies. Those that insisted on this kind of hairstyle were mainly considered to be unruly and sometimes weed smokers. 

Justine Rukeba Mbabazi is an international lawyer, international development practitioner, and author of the book “This is Your Time, Rwanda: Emerging Story of a Bold Nation and its Brilliant Destiny.”

Rwandans love their Primus, but drinking it alone for hours induces hunger. To remedy this problem, they have the “brochette,” (some prefer to call it kebab).

The best thing about Labour Day is the Public Holiday, don’t you? All the elaborate speeches and themes don’t really help the average worker.

Several years ago, I decided to celebrate Labor Day in a neighboring country. My visit was also in the name of exporting I.T services so that I could earn myself some quid. Before leaving Kigali for mi mission, I had been reliably informed about a niche market in this land where office payroll clerks preferred to compute salaries with the use of electronic calculators.

Perhaps you do not imagine how you can have breakfast in Kigali City restaurants when you have only Rwf 100 but that is possible in Biryogo, a suburb in Kigali City’s Nyarugenge District. 

Wrath, greed, envy, sloth, pride, gluttony, and lust: The Seven Deadly Sins, right? But wait …is that not so … A.D. 590?

I wish I did not have to write this particular paragraph but simply slap the living daylights out of some people. I am talking about the fools that think it is ok to make lame jokes about death and dead people.