EDITOR
GILBERT MWIJUKE
E-mail: [email protected]
Mobile: +250 787 089 069
WRITERS
DENISE M. TUYISENGE
DONNAH MBABAZI
DAVID CECIL
BRIAN GASHUGI
SALES AND MARKETING
ALICE MBABAZI
E-mail: [email protected]
Mobile: +250 786 896 633
PHOTOGRAPHY
DANIEL S. NTWARI
ILLUSTRATIONS
DOLPH BANZA
DESIGN AND LAYOUT
RUKUNDO SEAN GILBERT
CUT OUT FOR ROUGH SEAS
The road to success is usually a bumpy one.
It’s long and intricate. It throws at us tons of
challenges. That is why, many times, it’s the
most compulsive people who are good at navigating that road.
People who make it in life never look at failure
as the end of the world. The sky will never fall
down, so they believe. They treat each failure
as one step forward, and their engines never
conc out no matter how bumpy the road to
success is.
But of course, not everyone is cut out for
these rough seas. However, there are some
individuals who stand out as being particularly well-suited for dealing with hard things.
Rwandan entrepreneurs Davis Nteziryayo,
Serge Ndekwe and Greg Bakunzi are good examples of such individuals.
Like most successful entrepreneurs, Nteziryayo and co. started many business ventures that failed, but their failures were not
wasted opportunities; they always drew
something from them.
Certainly little-known to most Rwandans,
Nteziryayo is the brain behind Pesa Choice,
a California-based money transfer services
company that mainly targets the African di04 - CHIEF EXECUTIVE
aspora. The stories of Amahoro Tours’ Greg
Bakunzi and Masaka Farms’ Serge Ndekwe
are equally fascinating. Find out how these
outstanding individuals have braved the
murky waters of entrepreneurship and registered enviable success along the way.
In this issue, we also analyse two works of
journalism that have circulated in the recent past purporting to tell the ‘Truth’ about
Rwanda: The Untold Story (BBC 2014, producer Jane Corbin), which presents an alternative narrative about the 1994 Genocide
against the Tutsi; and Anjan Sundaram’s
book, Bad News (Bloomsbury Circus 2016),
which offers to expose to the reader the
contradiction between the government’s
claims to support freedom of expression
and the reality of how hard it is for Rwandan journalists to deviate from a script
written by the very same government.
Free
copy
October
2016
edition
But how can we navigate together through
the shadowy terrain of history, hand-inhand, and supporting each other, so that we
do not lose our balance?
Enjoy!
Gilbert
挀漀渀渀攀挀琀椀渀最
吀䠀䔀 䐀伀吀匀