Regis 𝔻𝕦𝕤𝕙
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Regis 𝔻𝕦𝕤𝕙
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Entrepreneur || Philosophy: If you breathe, #𝕂𝕠𝕠𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕒.



🎭 The creative industries are not entertainment. They are an economy. From the main stage of the Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit in Kigali, Hon. @XandrineUmutoni, Rwanda's Minister of State for Youth and Arts, reframed an industry too often relegated to the margins of African economic strategy. 📜 Her playbook rests on four pillars Rwanda has been actively building. First, the enabling policy environment, with intellectual property protection at its core, without ownership of what creatives produce, the same capital keeps circulating to the same gatekeepers, and wealth never compounds for the artists themselves. 🎓 Second, human capital development across the entire value chain. Not just the talent on stage, but the managers who can read a contract beyond their 10%, the lawyers fluent in IP law, the educators shaping curricula aligned with the labour market, and the technicians whose invisible work makes any cultural product professional. 🏛️ Third, infrastructure that is both physical and digital, and that carries cultural identity by design. Her question to the room was direct. Are African office buildings, conference centres and public venues being built so that the moment you walk in, you know you are in Rwanda, Kenya or Nigeria? Cultural identity, embedded in the architecture itself, is now part of how the continent should think infrastructure. 🌍 Underpinning the entire ambition is one persistent continental obstacle she named without hesitation. Visa frictions for African creatives moving across African borders to showcase their work. The single most concrete blocker to a pan-African creative economy. #ACF2026 #AfricaCEOForum






“We do not say ‘Never Again’ because we believe that the ill has been eradicated, nor that the fight is over; we say ‘Never Again’ because we have embraced the reality of a perpetual resistance against the recurrence of the evil that tried to break us, to erase us.” - First Lady Mrs Jeannette Kagame As we continue #Kwibuka32, Her Excellency reflects on the enduring responsibility of remembrance, the courage of survivors, and the duty of every generation to defend truth. Read the full op-ed here: imbutofoundation.org/rwandas-rememb…




























