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[_urusaro @KalimbaSharon]

My book FIASCO is now available for pre-order. It's a genre-defying literary mosaic, a blend of memoir, poetry, essays, cultural critique, and social commentary, set in Kigali.
https://t.co/fknWCU7Qf9

[Raoul Rugamba @raoulrugamba]

To the wider community interested, commenting, and engaging on the recent museum situation: please take time to understand, analyze, and know the business. At least the story.

Sad the amount of misguiding comments, information, bad faith, circulating, spread across.

That matter should have been finalized internally, addressed differently from the beginning of the deal.

Hope people let it be handled the right way, stop making it political. Stop judging the government or the artist.

The arts, the business of arts, has, is, a different reality. If not involved, nor have been close to it, you would not be able to understand it, consequently speak about it rightfully.

The support brought to our industry by our government is immense and the government keeps doing the most, day in day out. They are doing the most at their capacity, and it is really very normal a lot is to be studied, understood, be done.

“Rome wasn’t built in one day”

On the other hand, entrepreneurs, artists, know, and are passionate about their crafts. The last thing they want is free things, not growing, not having their work recognized and bring value, monetary or impact, to their communities, business, and country, it’s image as well.

“The best way to create the future is to create it”

We learn by our mistakes/failures they said, the culture of failure is of no shame to any, and this situation is of no failure nor mistake to any.

“Energy and persistence conquer all things”

As a people we should be able to accommodate our shortages, capacity, knowledge, financial, understanding of the business, etc, and build from there robust systems, legal, business, support, etc, to guide the overall CCI ecosystem instead of the blame game or culture of not learning/understanding/being flexible or simply exercising extreme power.

We are on a journey as a country, these industries have been on their own, a jungle, for many years, this is part of the process toward a more sustainable CCI ecosystem, better, favorable and stronger public private partnerships frameworks.

Let it be creatively handled, more importantly, internally!

[The New Times (Rwanda) @NewTimesRwanda]

OPINION: If we want our stories to be seen, sold, studied, and exported, ISBN must move from the back of the book to the center of the system. What is not identified does not exist.

✍️: @gmutesi
https://t.co/mm0qUUBawN

[Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) @rbarwanda]

“Rwandan student Atete Kagorora Ariana has won the EAC Essay Writing Competition at the 25th Ordinary Summit of Heads of State in Arusha, Tanzania.

Her essay focused on the effects of climate change in the EAC and solutions to address them. #RBANews

[goma @soigomaa]

Whenever l am slightly disrespected by a man, I remember my favorite Michelle Obama lore. There's a story about them dining at a restaurant when they learned the chef used to be Michelle's high school boyfriend

Barack joked,
lf you were still with him, you could have been the owner of this nice restaurant."

Michelle replied,
"No. If I were still with him, he would have been President of the United States."
And that's the energy every woman should have about her own worth.

[santy @santodrives]

first week of 2026: fascism, invasion, chaos, death, lies. but art exists. somehow a film keeps you human and sane while the world burns. that's why sharing cinema matters

[Ministry of Youth and Arts | Rwanda @RwandaYouthArts]

Today, PS @NgaboBrave started the four-day workshop on 'The Battle of Bisesero' film. Led by actor Wale Ojo and film director Mandla Dube, over 50 Rwandan actors, writers, and directors will receive practical training, creative development opportunities, and industry insights.

[Ministry of Youth and Arts | Rwanda @RwandaYouthArts]

🛑MoYA ifatanyije na @Rwanda_Edu barashishikariza Amashuri Makuru na Kaminuza kwiyandikisha mu marushanwa y'Imbyino Gakondo n'Ubusizi 2026. Ubusabe bwoherezwa kuri [email protected] cyangwa kuri [email protected]; Bizarangira tariki 12 Mutarama 2026. #UmwimerereWacu

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

A compulsory read!

[Ministry of Youth and Arts | Rwanda @RwandaYouthArts]

🎬 BISESERO FILM WORKSHOP – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 🎬

Interested in acting, writing, directing, or producing?

Join an intensive acting, directing & storytelling masterclass led by acclaimed director, Mandla Dube & award-winning actor, Wale Ojo.

👉 Apply: https://t.co/BedwejY3wV

[Sandrine Umutoni @XandrineUmutoni]

🗣️To all innovators, creatives, entrepreneurs, and all curious minds alike, register for this course specifically tailored for #Rwanda, and learn how #intellectualproperty drives innovation and economic growth.
#IPisWealth

[Chimamanda❤️ @Chima_Obi1234]

Just won the Mermaid Award in Sweden.

The Mermaid Award is given annually by the Gothenburg Book Fair to a writer who has deeply moved Swedish readers.

Making it third award in 2025.
👏🏽

[liz 🫧 @L1fafaforSale]

Remember when googling a word actually gave you that neat little box with meaning, synonyms, antonyms, etymology, even phonetic transcription. Now it's been replaced by AI slop overview which is objectively worse completely useless. THIS IS ENSHITTIFICATION!

[Tito Rutaremara @titorutaremara4]

1/7. ABACURABWENGE

Abacurabwenge ni abahanga bose bazi amateka n’ibintu byose n’ubuzima bw’ igihugu , barimo:
-Abasizi
-Abazi amateka
-Abahanga mu gusobanura iby’u Rwanda
-Abahanuzi
-Abaragura
Hari abatanga indagu,hari abacuzi, abakannyi ,hari n’abandi bakoraga indi mirimo.

[Isôoko Great Lakes Festival Plus @isookoGLF]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Join two specialized workshops: Puppetry with Phylemon Odhiambo (Kenya Institute of Puppetry), Acting with Freddy Sabimbona (Buja sans Tabou), Nov 03-06 at L*Espace. Apply by Oct 15 to [email protected]. Specify PUPPETRY or ACTING in your email!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There’s a fantastic moment in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather where a woman asks Death what is the purpose of fantasy, and Death replies, “HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.” Fiction is not frivolous, it’s essential.

[Complex @Complex]

We challenged Regina King to rank her Top 5 'BOONDOCKS' moments 📺

[zellie @zellieimani]

“Nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."

Assata Shakur

[Icona @iconawrites]

Society expects us to value art only as a mean to an end. Read enough to get good grades and a high-paying career. Know enough about Titian to impress the right people at dinner parties.
But valuing art for its own sake, valuing it above wealth and status? That is a radical act.

[Yolande Makolo 🇷🇼 @YolandeMakolo]

In what way would stalking Rwandan cemeteries like this even conceivably be a "human rights" issue? Human Rights Watch is disingenuous & desperate for attention. How about using this technology to show the ongoing bombing of Banyamulenge villages by FARDC, the thousands of Burundian troops crossing into South Kivu to support FARDC & out-of-control VDP/Wazalendo militias who are killing civilians? Or is @HRW covering for these ongoing attacks by repeatedly & wrongly placing the blame on Rwanda?

[The New Times (Rwanda) @NewTimesRwanda]

HAPPENING: Ambulances carrying eye patients arrive at Kigali International Airport for them to get surgery inside Orbis Flying Eye Hospital — an airplane equipped with medical tools that flies in various countries to treat people in need.

Over 40 surgeries are expected to be performed within the airplane and Kibagabaga Hospital — the host health facility — in four days from Tuesday to Friday.

Orbis professionals have trained over 1,00 healthcare workers in critical eye care, since their arrival in Rwanda on July 18, according to organisers.

📹: @EmNtirenganya /TNT