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Choosing a housemate: the dos and don’ts

Edith Uwase met her housemate Louise Umutoni during their university days in Kampala. Both 21-year-old Rwandan girls were in a strange land in pursuit of higher education. Umutoni had moved to Uganda first and was staying in a hostel with roommates she describes as ‘differently’ mannered. When Uwase joined the university a semester later, they bumped into each other a lot around the campus and finally began living together in the same hostel room. That was 2008. Today, Uwase works for a non-government organisation in Kigali and Umutoni works in a government ministry in Kigali too. They still live together in Remera and now have a third partner, Uwase’s cousin Alice Mbabazi, who is slightly younger than them.
Sharing a house can be fun, especially when you are already friends. Net photo
Sharing a house can be fun, especially when you are already friends. Net photo
Collins Mwai