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Rwandan male clinging desperately to the flying coat-tails of the digital revolution. Bibliophile, LFC. Anti-onion society

Kigali, Rwanda Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Murenzi Abdallaziz@MAbdallaziz·
This is solid progress. However, 52% isn’t a comfort zone; it’s a stress test. If we’re honest, it raises the real question: did we truly optimize, or are we plateauing within our own inefficiencies? Sustaining and expanding the services share demands a full-system approach. Service delivery isn’t a slogan; it runs from policy design to frontline execution: structured trainings, consistent inspections, credible incentives, breaking the culture of silence among service users, strict turnaround times on complaints, and sustained, intentional public awareness (sustainable than Na Yombi 🤲🏻). Anything less, and the 52% becomes a ceiling not a milestone. ~ A concerned citizen.
Jean-Guy K. Afrika@afrika_jean

➡️Rwanda's economy grew by 9.4% in 2025, outperforming projections and confirming the strength of our macroeconomic fundamentals. The performance reflects consistent policy execution, prudent macroeconomic management, and sustained investment across productive sectors of the economy. For businesses and investors, the signal is clear: we continue to provide a stable, predictable, and pro-business environment, anchored in strong institutions, ongoing reforms, and a clear long-term development vision.

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Fatu@fatuogwuche·
Monday Newsletter 🚨🚨 Rwanda is coming for Africa's AI throne! Rwanda has a smaller population than Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city, and it just signed one of the largest AI partnerships on the African continent with the world’s top 3 AI companies. The question isn’t why Anthropic chose Rwanda. The question is: why is everyone else still watching? Read my take: bigtechthisweek.com/p/rwanda-is-co…
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Fatu@fatuogwuche

I spent this past week researching what African countries are doing with AI, and Rwanda is taking the crown 👑

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Geoff Shullenberger
Geoff Shullenberger@g_shullenberger·
Astonishing thing for Andreessen to say about the 17th century, whose cultural achievements—Hamlet, metaphysical poetry, Milton’s Satan, Rembrandt’s self-portraiture, to name a few—were nearly all tied to the increasing centrality of introspection and a rich inner life.
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David Senra@davidsenra

Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.

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Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
The Iran War could trigger a global economic crisis and you won’t find a better summary of why than this one sentence from Rachel Ziemba below. Yes, this is about gas prices. But it’s also about: - the cost of food (fertilizer inputs are stuck) - the cost of computer chips (LNG and helium are stuck) - the cost of green energy (sulphuric acid produced by refineries is used to extract COPPER, which is used to make EVs, transformers, etc, is stuck) - the cost of moving anything anywhere (jet and container fuel) We’ve snapped the thin ACL of the global economy with no clear plan to surgically repair it.
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Marie Kresbach Kabera ✝️🇷🇼🇩🇪🇮🇱🙌🏽
Marie Kresbach Kabera ✝️🇷🇼🇩🇪🇮🇱🙌🏽@MarieKresbach·
I understand that a city's image should be well preserved. However, this can only happen if a certain group is not ignored, a group for whom this image no longer has any meaning and whose survival mechanism is paramount. The image could be preserved, but then this particular group would choose a different strategy for survival, which could also pose a major problem. This would create a vicious circle and an endless struggle that cannot be resolved. Umuti wabyo could be, I will an example of other countries who managed this problem issue well. Bangkok/ Singapore: 1.The city can officially designate certain streets or squares for street vending. Examples: Special "street food zones" Permanent market areas. Temporary evening markets. This has advantages: Abazunguzayi benefit from planning security. The city appears clean and organized . Visitors see this as part of the culture( NOTE THAT TOURISTS MIGHT BE ATTRACTED TO PRECISELY that "SOMETHING DIFFERENT". As someone who enjoys traveling, I experience this quite often. ) Practical examples include organized night markets in Bangkok and street food areas in Singapore. 2. Simple and affordable licenses: Many street vendors work informally because the permits are too complicated. Cities can: Offer affordable vendor licenses. Enable simple online registration. Offer short training courses (hygiene, waste disposal) This way, vendors remain legal and the cityscape remains tidy.
Kigali Today@kigalitoday

“Turifuza ko abazunguzayi bakabaye ntabahari. Kuko badahari nta muntu wajya kubafata. Uyu Mujyi kugira ngo ube usa neza uyu munsi hari igihe bisaba gufata ibyemezo bikomeye.” Emma Claudine Ntirenganya, Umuvugizi w’Umujyi wa Kigali, avuga ko abazunguzayi badakwiye kuba bahari.

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Floorshark
Floorshark@toleynoir·
Thanks for this. I own a couple of those restaurants and I’d like to engage on this . Even though my places carry a high price tag, the laws in which we operate in Kigali make being mid priced or cheap very unattainable. As restaurants here must have tourism license, that involves either renting a building already fitted out with all the requirements in place, or in my case, retrofitting my building to include very expensive upgrades, like 15 m for a generator, 1.5 m for a lightning rod, 2 m for a smoke alarm system, and many many many more. In fact it cost me over 28m just to get this license. Also we have to cover mandatory audits yearly (3m) staff testing for disease twice yearly ( 700k each time) and also have to include the 18% vat in our prices, mandatory enrollments in restaurant associations, it keeps going to the point where some places are just saying screw it and closing, because making money is very hard. If you pay your staff a good wage and aren’t cheap, then your payroll will be high, and then you also have another 45% on top of that payroll in employee pension and taxes. Like your staff? Insurance for my staff is 12m/ yr. Restaurants operate on margins . For us to go above a 30% cost of goods, means we likely won’t even profit. Considering all this my yearly sales are about 700m, and I’m barely making any profit. I am also a very experienced operator. It’s very difficult to hold a high standard and also profit when most nights your dining rooms are 1/3 full. Many of the restaurants that can serve meals at 3 or 4 k are definitely not ones with the mandatory licensing. Also, they probably are not being honest with RRA and providing mandatory Ebm. No discounts or incentives are given to restaurants here . If you import your equipment, and mostly everyone has to since we don’t make it here, you are also looking at 25% duty plus 18% vat on it. In short doing business here for restaurants is not cheap for the operator. Nobody is going to blow a wad on a place just to not get paid back. Ps, I totally agree with you and it’s often a conversation I have . Thanks for bringing it up
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TANTINE
TANTINE@tantineishere·
I got bone to pick 💀 Specifically with the prices of Kigali restaurants, events, brands,.. What is happening here ? Why are we fooling ourselves? Please go read the article and leave a comment. challenge the sentiment and/or share your thoughts: open.substack.com/pub/umwari/p/w…
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The Long Form Podcast
The Long Form Podcast@TheLongFormRw·
The Long Form Podcast is now one of the TOP podcasts in the country — and our latest episode just hit #1 in Society & Culture. From conversations to impact. At @LFMEDIA_rw we’re only getting started !!! #TopCharts #Podcast #Rwanda
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The Sting
The Sting@TheStingisBack·
Fallen (1998) deserves way more love. Denzel Washington took on horror, surrounded himself with a stellar cast and sold a killer premise: a fallen angel that body-hops with a touch. It flopped on release, but we really need to reappraise this gem... Time truly is on its side
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