‘Nests’ are for birds, not humans

There is no Rwandan who can deny that living in a grass-thatched house is a shame. Indeed, the interlocutors on the BBC Kinyarwanda/Kirundi programme last Saturday were in agreement over that. Yet ‘Bye Bye Nyakatsi’ (or simply Nyakatsi), Rwanda’s programme aimed at eradicating those ‘thatches’, continues to generate heated debate. The arguments are on both the fact and the method.
The New Times
Pan Butamire