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“When you fall you need to get up and walk again. Papyrus was closed four times but I kept on rising, so I think people should have trust and faith in themselves,” he says. His meeting with the President Paul Kag­ame a few yers back left him a completely different person; the President is the person Ndekwe looks up to because of the inspiration he gave him. “I was really lucky to meet the president, for me after that meeting I was another person; I be­lieve more in my country, I believe more in Rwandans, and I think if we keep like this compared to other African countries, this country is going to be really an example. “He urged me to inspire young entrepre­ neurs, and this really inspired me a lot because whenever I feel like giving up I think about the fact that the President saw potential in me, and giving up would feel like giving up on my fellow Rwandans. I have a lot of respect for him,” Ndekwe says. OCTOBER 2016 EDITION - 27