Nic Kabs

Film Producer @Imitanaprod
Festival Coordinator @KCJFilmFestival

[Voice of Kivu @VoiceOfKivu]

Goma renaît ! Après des années de conflits, la paix est enfin réelle. Peter Fahrenholtz, ancien diplomate allemand, témoigne : « Pas de crise humanitaire ici. Les rues sont animées, l'université a rouvert, et l'état de droit s'établit. »
Un nouvel espoir pour les déplacés rentrés chez eux. Il n'a pas voulu seulement lire les infos, et les rapports il est venu sur terrain et il a observé...
#Goma #Paix #Renaissance
@peterfahren

[Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_English]

The next chapter awaits.

🔗 https://t.co/3HQLtumMs3

[Ministry of Youth and Arts | Rwanda @RwandaYouthArts]

Muri aka kanya, kuri @NyanzaMemorial, urubyiruko rwo mu mujyi wa Kigali rwitabiriye igikorwa gitegurwa na @Our_Past_In cyo kwibuka Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994. #Kwibuka31

📌Live: https://t.co/n6sqXmriDt

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

🕯️ ‘Kwibuka’ means ‘to remember’.

Today we mark the 31st commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

[Louise Mushikiwabo @LMushikiwabo]

Abachou, muraho se! Ntiduherukanye ariko n'aha vuba! Kuri uyu munsi wa mbere rero w'icyunamo ku nshuro ya 31, hari byinshi twavuga muri iki gihe, gusa twibuke twiyubaka, ntihagire ikidukanga, kuko n'abadutabye cya gihe ntibari bazi ko turi imbuto, affirmons l'audace de la vie!

[Visit Rwanda @visitrwanda_now]

🕯️ ‘Kwibuka’ means ‘to remember’.

Remember – Unite – Renew

#Kwibuka31 | @PSG_inside

[Lawrence Rugwiro @LawrenceRugwiro]

This is where the rot begins. In the self-satisfied Eurocentric world where Baker now resides, decorum and protocol are reserved for white leaders. It’s President Macron, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Chancellor Scholz, but the President of Rwanda? Just “Kagame,” as though he were not a head of state elected by millions of Rwandan citizens.

This is no accident—it’s chauvinistic shorthand used for African leaders who don’t kneel to Western diktats. It's the linguistic frontline of the White Savior Industrial Complex, and Baker laps it up like a good student eager to impress his professors of neocolonialism.

“One of Africa’s most authoritarian leaders”

This tired talking point again? Baker lifts this straight from the Human Rights Watch playbook—a group infamous for its lazy recycling of Western talking points with little local nuance or substance. What makes President Kagame “authoritarian”? That Rwanda doesn’t collapse every election cycle like many Western-darling pseudo-democracies?

Let’s talk metrics:

Rwanda is one of the cleanest and safest countries in the world.
The World Bank praises Rwanda for its sustained economic growth and poverty reduction.
Life expectancy, literacy, access to healthcare—all improved under the so-called “dictator.”

But no, to Baker, all this is irrelevant because the real sin is that Rwanda dares to be independent. Rwanda dares to tell the West: “We don’t need your permission to succeed.” That’s the real “authoritarianism” they can’t tolerate.

Here comes the masterpiece of lazy propaganda. Baker invokes the “wars in the DRC” with zero context, like President Kagame wakes up every morning, stretches, and thinks: “You know what I’ll do today? Invade the Congo, because that’s what savage Africans do.”

What are the wars about, Samuel? Why is the M23 —a Congolese political-military movement made up of Congolese Tutsi—fighting? What about the continued existence of FDLR, the genocidal militia formed by the architects of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi?

Baker is silent on these because truth complicates the fiction villainy he’s trying to paint. If Rwanda is intervening, it’s because the same killers who orchestrated the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi are still being harbored and even armed by Tshisekedi across our border. But Baker would rather cast Rwandans as warmongers than admit that.

Let’s be crystal clear: Samuel Baker has no right to speak on behalf of genocide survivors. None. Especially not to accuse them of being pawns in some supposed propaganda scheme, simply because their lived experience doesn’t match his armchair theorizing from Europe.

Over a million Tutsi were slaughtered in 100 days. The trauma of that genocide is not a tool for politics—it is a national wound that President Kagame has worked to heal through unity, reconciliation, and economic dignity.

Baker’s suggestion that the Post-genocide Rwandan government is “manipulating trauma” is not just insulting—it’s denialist-adjacent filth. It’s an intellectual slap in the face to every survivor, every child born in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, and every Rwandan who has chosen healing over vengeance.

What Baker really means is that the people he likes aren’t winning elections. He’s upset that Rwandans—14+ million of us—don’t vote for chaos. We don’t vote for warlords, crypto-colonial opposition figures, or failed exiles who write op-eds from Europe.

It’s not that critics are “silenced.” It’s that most Rwandans don’t agree with them. And that truth—that Africans are capable of independent, informed thought—burns people like Samuel Baker, because it shatters the paternalistic narrative they’ve built their reputations on.

Samuel Baker wants us to believe that we, here in Rwanda, are too brainwashed to understand our own reality. That he, a man in self-imposed exile, is the only one who sees clearly. That we, the people who live, work, vote, heal, and rebuild, are too stupid to know we’re oppressed.

So no, Baker. You don’t get to use the trauma of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi to score cheap political points. You don’t get to erase 30 years of rebuilding. And you sure as hell don’t get to lecture Rwandans about democracy from the safe cocoon of your European comforts.

[Nic Kabs @NickyKabs]

@Fiona_Kamikazi Fair indeed. #Kwibuka31

[Fiona Kamikazi Rutagengwa @Fiona_Kamikazi]

This is a fair request, wouldn’t you agree? #Kwibuka31

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :

“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.

By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.

I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

— For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

[KIGALIAN @TheKigalian_]

@matinyarare "If you want the #war to end, you end the #injustice, you end #political problems for not only your people, but for others, including neighbors, that are affected." - #President #Kagame

[Nic Kabs @NickyKabs]

@mat32181 @ali_naka Rwandans were not employed by Belgium nor were they fed by Belgium. It did not save us in the past and it will not save us in the future. Only we can employ, feed and save ourselves. I suggest you do the same in whatever country you are in. Only way to prosper.

[Nic Kabs @NickyKabs]

@UgWitness @ali_naka Arise from the colonial mentality. You can achieve more if you think past your ignorant ways. Leave Rwanda for Rwandans and fix your own issues.

[KARANGWA Sewase🇷🇼 @KARANGWASewase]

We have said no to neo-colonialism, Sir. You killed our kings and ancestors who resisted colonialism, and until today, you can't show us the final resting place of King Musinga. You have physically and mentally tortured us to the extent that you exhibit our ancestors' corpses in your museums. You sowed divisions among Rwandans, which led to the genocide against the Tutsi. You harbor genocidaires who perpetrated the genocide against the Tutsi. Now, you are fueling conflicts in the region with the aim of exterminating Rwandans, while simultaneously encouraging Western countries to sanction Rwanda. Enough is enough! We are ready to return to the way we were before colonialism.

[Hervé S. M. @Maniraguha_Acc]

Belgium 'regrets'… but conveniently forgets its own arrogance.👇🏾

➡️ You call Rwanda’s response "disproportionate," yet Belgium was the first to reject Rwanda’s ambassador. Reciprocity is standard in diplomacy—so don’t act surprised when Kigali responds in kind.

➡️ Belgium pretends to value "dialogue," yet it has spent months lecturing, calling for sanctions, and antagonizing Rwanda without any genuine engagement. You cannot demand respect while treating Rwanda like a colony that must obey.

➡️ Cutting governmental cooperation? No problem. Rwanda has built itself despite Belgium, and it will continue to thrive without it.

📌 You wanted a confrontation, you got one. Now act like grown-ups and own your decisions.

#DiplomaticReciprocity #RwandaIsSovereign #NoMorePatronizing

[Engr Isaski @Isabelloisa1]

@FabrizioRomano Man of the match.

[Royal FM 94.3 Kigali @RoyalFMRwanda]

"We cannot let history be written by those who have been at the core of de-centering our development." - Zuba Mutesi
#ZFrequency

[Robert Cyubahiro McKenna @RobCyubahiro]

The Western media have been attacking Kagame for the last 30 years, I am used to it.

But these days? Europeans, British, and French amplified their attacks on him.

As an African, if I see Europeans and Americans attacking someone he/she is probably doing something right!

[𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 || 𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗡𝗱𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗷𝗲❒︎ @Ndagije__sam]

In my view, "Musanze" is the second most prominent city following Kigali.

[Nic Kabs @NickyKabs]

@BTnewsroom @PatrickRugaba @shinani1 “Rwandan Genocide Survivor”?! 😂😂We in Rwanda know him, we know what he stands for and what his father stood for. He might fool you but not us. Shame!