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Close to 300 European mercenaries surrendered to M23 rebels and were allowed to cross into Rwanda before they were facilitated to take flights to their countries on Wednesday, January 29. Courtesy

DR Congo’s endless chaos: Puppets, mercenaries and freedom fighters

Sunday, February 09, 2025
US President Donald Trump delivers his speech at his inauguration on Monday, January 20. Internet

Trump’s inauguration speech: Wrong on some counts, but right on ambition

Thursday, January 23, 2025
Refaming Rwanda's origin. A look beyond colonial narratives.

Reframing Rwanda's origins: A look beyond colonial narratives

Monday, January 13, 2025
President Paul Kagame has reacted to the Roman Catholic Church's decision to begin the beatification process for King Baudouin of Belgium. Photo by Village Urugwiro
Rwanda

“Very hard to rationalise anything these days,” Kagame on plans to sanctify Belgian King Baudouin

Monday, December 30, 2024
The Vatican Formally Launches His Cause For Beatification And Canonization Photo by Gaeta.It

A tentative answer to why Vatican wants the beatification of Baudouin

Monday, December 30, 2024
King Baudouin of Belgium meets with Mutara III Rudahigwa in Rwanda

Beatification of Baudouin: Ndahiro asks relevant questions but fails to provide a decolonial reading of Belgian King’s responsibilities

Saturday, December 28, 2024
The New Times

Holiness Can’t Be Hollow: When the Vatican Plays Saints and Sinners

Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Rwandan King Mutara III Rudahigwa, Burundi's Prince Louis Rwagasore and Congo's Patrice Lumumba. Courtesy

Denial as devotion: A king’s legacy and the ghosts of colonial Africa

Sunday, December 22, 2024
King Baudouin of Belgium

The oxymoronic beatification: Saints, sinners, and the church’s selective morality

Friday, December 20, 2024
Christopher Trott, a British diplomat during a tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial, while learning Rwandan tragic history. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Rwanda’s first multiparty politics reflected divisions of late colonial period

Tuesday, December 17, 2024
King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa was crowned in what colonialists and Hutu militants called a coup d’état. Internet

A glance at socio-political chaos that followed Rudahigwa’s sudden death

Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Mutara III Rudahigwa bent to the demands of Belgian colonial masters.

Mutara III Rudahigwa, the strategist and transgenerational inspirer

Friday, November 22, 2024