Pascaline

Here being an awesome human being

[Duncan Abigaba @DuncanAbigaba]

Rwanda is now the official COFFEE supplier of Aston Villa FC. That's how you market a country's premium product and position its tourism. To optimize Uganda's coffee, we must align it with global brands in sports, entertainment #CoffeeTourism

[Nuru @NuruFreddy]

What was meant to destroy us became the reason we stand stronger. 🇷🇼

Kwibuka twiyubaka.
#kwibuka32

[Daniel Adetona @daniel_adetona]

one thing I learnt from studying the greats is that you can outperform all your peers by literally just acting on every good idea immediately you get them

[Logan Simmons @CoachLSimmons]

Success is a choice.

It’s:
1) doing the common things better than everyone else
2) doing the things that no one else wants to do

It’s a choice to step out of your comfort zone because that is where the growth happens. It happens where you’re stretched beyond your current limits.

Success is dirty, hard work. It’s not pretty & shiny. Do hard things. Make it a habit to choose the things others refuse to do.

[omoge. @KhloeUmoh]

Everyday you’re closer to being ordinary than to being spectacular and that’s why you must rage against the dying of the light daily. You must not spare even a moment being mediocre. You must pursue excellence.

[Brock Lesnar @softsgora]

Discipline is really the only thing you need to change your whole life. You master it in one area and it has a ripple effect on everything else.

[Ajide Victor | Webflow Developer @Victor_Webflow]

One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

An underrated cheat code in life: being easy to work with. Show up early. Be kind. Do more than your share. Be reliable and consistent.

[Lonzen Rugira @LonzenRugira]

What’s holding Africans back? President Kagame asked.

Prof. Murigande told Kagame that the main reason is that African leaders don’t care about their people. They seek to enrich themselves — to eat, and to eat alone. The president agreed with him, but he pressed further, asking why this problem seems peculiar to Africa.

Kagame doesn’t ask rhetorical questions. He has identified a problem and is involving Rwandans in finding a solution.

Here’s my take:

To overcome challenges like those faced by postcolonial societies, a people must rediscover a sense of collective self-worth. Usually, this comes from the memory of their past achievements— who they were as a people informs who they are and who they aspire to be.

While Africa was not the only region to experience colonization, it is one of the few where colonialism either erased the memory of past greatness or created new countries with no shared memory of such greatness.

Colonisation captured African minds. In that sense, although Africa was colonised last, it was colonised the worst.

Colonial education deepened this alienation, distorting African aspirations, turning them from collective to individual.

In the 1950s, the small group of “educated” African elites aspired to join the white world : the colonial administration. Today, with colonial education still intact and keeping African minds in chains, the elites it creates do not aspire to uplift their people; they aspire to join the global elite. They don’t seek to improve their own societies; they seek to escape from them.

Accordingly, these elites measure their self-worth by:

•how fluently they speak foreign languages,
•which foreign schools they send their children to,
•which foreign hospitals they can afford,
•how many houses they build, and how much money they invest abroad.

At the heart of this lies a quiet acceptance that Africans are somehow defective as a people, and that the only way to succeed is individually. Even those who once believed they could change things often abandon the quest for collective improvement once they grasp the scale of the effort it demands.

The kind of heavy lifting required for real transformation breeds a sense of hopelessness, one that pushes people from collective ambition toward individual greed.

So, the individual’s aspiration becomes to join the global bourgeoisie. But these are strategies of self-evacuation. They are attempts to flee backwardness by moving from the rural village to the capital, then on to the enlightened colonial metropolis, and ultimately to disappear into cosmopolitan anonymity - a form of self erasure rather than a search for self restoration.

This journey became the measure of progress. Those who remain in Africa do so with one foot already out (through dual citizenship or close connections to the representatives of their desired metropoles) for themselves, and especially for their children.

Although Kagame brings up this topic, it has been a theme he turns to whenever he notices that some ethic is creeping in amongst the leaders, only that this time he is more specific.

For example, while he has been teaching agaciro as a form of mental decolonization, most people over the years understood agaciro merely as a material pursuit.

Yet agaciro is, at its core, about retracing and reclaiming the memory of self-worth and therefore the basis for collective pursuit.

[Akaliza Uwase @AkalizaUwase]

Everything about him involves strategic planning! Even small details.

[Jean-Guy K. Afrika @afrika_jean]

🇷🇼The journey continues! From Europe’s biggest clubs to America’s biggest stage, we now join the NFL with the LA Rams. Each sponsorship is a step in our long-term strategy: using global platforms to grow tourism, investment, and sports development.

[Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) @rbarwanda]

“And on our end, we admire and respect Rwanda for your resilience and your outstanding achievements in economic and technological development.”

Alvin Tan, Singaporean Minister of State for Trade, Industry and Culture, Community and Youth.

#RBANews #IFF2025

[Candy Basomingera @CandyBaso]

Between Tour du Rwanda, Rwanda Challenger, Inclusive Fintech Forum and the Pan-African Surgical Conference, it's another very busy week for #MeetInRwanda!

Wishing delegates and athletes a productive and enjoyable stay.

[miso.pdf @nomiiiso]

AURA :)

[Paul Kagame @PaulKagame]

Happy Heroes Day! Today, we honour our national heroes who upheld the very values of unity, truth, and justice that define our country today. It is the responsibility of all of us, young and old, to face challenges with fearlessness and integrity, to stand up for what is right and to continue building a nation that defies all expectations.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink helps schools in remote regions

[African @ali_naka]

Same stadium, same people, 30 Years later Be Proud Rwanda 🥲 #Inauguration2024

[Pascaline @PIyodusenga]

@Florencehope6 @SUN_Movement Congratulations Sis! Well deserved👏🏻👏🏻🎉

[Pascaline @PIyodusenga]

@ynkurunziza1 You got this!

[Edmund Kagire @kagire]

Someone has to say this. With all the pressure, demands & insurmountable challenges to deal with, only someone with PK's mindset could have managed Post-Genocide Rwanda. It is even more obvious today. Say all you want but we wouldn't have the Rwanda we see today without him . Watching all these frontline & war time videos, you realise that he has had the same mindset, resilience & courage to face the enemy in any form. It is that mindset that has safeguarded us all these years, cushioned us from all sorts of external nonsense & still keeps us going. Without him, we would still be some "colony" of sorts to some country. This man gave us an identity & something to stand up for. We should give him his flowers💐. I really hope we can carry this forward. #Kwibuka30