Ivan Murindabigwi

Communication Specialist and Best Performer 2022-2023 @RwandaYouthArts - Publisher at IVANKING - Negativity away! 🇷🇼♥️

[Formula 1 @F1]

Africa, we’re back. 🌍

From the early 2030s, the African Grand Prix will join the calendar and take place in Bugesera, Rwanda 🇷🇼

#F1

[Formula 1 @F1]

Rwanda – host of the African Grand Prix! 🇷🇼

Set to join the F1 calendar in the early 2030s with a purpose-built circuit in Bugesera, Rwanda

#F1

[Sandrine Umutoni @XandrineUmutoni]

Behind this milestone are years of hard work, perseverance, and unwavering belief in a dream.

Congratulations to Clémentine @dusabejambo and the entire Ben’Imana team for honoring our mothers and doing justice to their stories.

May this journey remind every young dreamer that some dreams take years to become reality, so keep believing, and never stop creating. 🇷🇼🎬

#ÀNosMères ❤️

[Ministry of Youth and Arts | Rwanda @RwandaYouthArts]

🛑PRESS RELEASE: Rwanda announces its first-ever submission to the Academy Awards with BEN’IMANA.

📌Read more: https://t.co/HGM7XSJJco

[CANAL+ Rwanda @CanalPlusRwanda]

Igikurikiyeho?
Ni bo bagiye guhitamo 5 bazakomeza mu irushanwa, ndetse n’ABATATU BAZABA ABAHIZE ABANDI MU GIHUGU!🥰🔥
@malikshaffy @iMurindabigwi @AntoinetteNgira

[CANAL+ Rwanda @CanalPlusRwanda]

ABA NI BO BAGIZE AKANAMA NKEMURAMPAKA MU IRUSHANWA CREATIVE TALENTS 2026 !

Ni impuguke mu bijyanye no gukora content, itumanaho n’itangazamakuru!

Ni irushanwa ritegurwa na CANAL+ rigamije guteza imbere urubyiruko rufite impano mu gukora content muri Afurika!

[Race+ @racepluscom]

🚨 | BREAKING!

F1 is set to return to Africa after 37 years, with Rwanda expected to join the calendar in 2030.

An agreement has reportedly been reached for a new permanent circuit to be built around 40km from Kigali.

An official announcement could come later this year.

📰 @Racingnews365c

[Ivan Murindabigwi @iMurindabigwi]

@KabagambeI Birasaba kuba Sober!

#SoberGen

[Sandrine Umutoni @XandrineUmutoni]

The spark that is Africa’s creative economy.

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, many of the international music stars my generation looked up to came from the West. Africa already had extraordinary artists, but we rarely saw African stars command the kind of global cultural reach we are witnessing today.

That is why seeing @heisrema perform at BK Arena this past @Kwitaizina weekend felt so powerful.

Afrobeats has become a global force. And today, young Africans can see those stars celebrated right here on the continent, in venues capable of hosting major international entertainment and sporting events.

And in that proximity lies true power. What young people can see, they can more easily imagine for themselves.

It was equally important to see our Rwandan artists command that stage. From Kivumbi King feat. Kirikou, Juno Kizigenza, Kenny Sol, Sarah Phenom, DJ Marnaud, Ruti Joel, Massamba, to DJ Senshi, and our talented MCs Rocky and Lucky, our ambition must be both to attract Africa’s biggest artists, and build the platforms and ecosystem that enable our own talent to grow here, across Africa and beyond.

And that ecosystem is much bigger than the artist.

It includes managers, promoters, producers, musicians, dancers, technicians, designers, content creators, hospitality and security professionals, and many others. As our talent professionalizes, the professional infrastructure around it must mature too.

Lastly, seeing children from the @SherrieSilver Foundation perform for Rema, who took time to encourage them, spoke to the power of possibility when we nurture talents from a young age. One can only imagine what that encounter like that has planted in those children’s minds.

This is why investing in our cultural and creative industries matters: talent, livelihoods, professional ecosystems must all come together for the sake of our youth seeing African creativity as something they too can build a future in, proudly. 🇷🇼🌍

[First Lady of Rwanda @FirstLadyRwanda]

Muri iki gitondo, Nyakubahwa Madamu Jeannette Kagame yitabiriye igikorwa cy’amasengesho y’abayobozi bakiri bato - Young Leaders Prayers Breakfast, agamije kuzirikana agaciro ko kubaka umuryango mwiza, ushoboye kandi utekanye.

Aya masengesho ngarukamwaka ategurwa na @Leaders_Pray hagamijwe kwimakaza indangagaciro zubakiye ku Mana.

Aya masengesho yitabiriwe n’ imiryango itandukanye y’abashakanye bakaba n’abayobozi mu nzego z’ubuyobozi zitandukanye, amadini n’amatorero, abikorera n’indi mirimo itandukanye, aho baza kurebera hamwe uburyo bwiza bwo guhangana no gutsinda ibibazo byugarije umuryango muri iki gihe.

Mukurikire ibiganiro byose munyuze hano: https://t.co/LhvxTqmaKg

#YoungLeadersPray

[Ingazi (Passport to Earning Rwanda) @Ingazi_official]

The INGAZI Technical Workshop wrapped up today inBugesera!

Stakeholders from @RwandaLabour @RwandaYouthArts , and @unicefrw gathered for a five-day workshop aimed at aligning priorities and finalizing implementation plans for the next phase of the INGAZI Programme.
#IngaziRw

[Sandrine Umutoni @XandrineUmutoni]

I have been reflecting on the debate around how some of our young people dress, and I wonder whether we are asking ourselves the deeper questions.

When concerns are raised about increasingly revealing fashion trends, the conversation quickly becomes: “Why does the State want to police our bodies?”

But perhaps we should also ask: who is shaping these trends in the first place, and why?

Parents in different parts of the world have pointed out something interesting: clothes marketed to little girls are often shorter, tighter or more appearance-conscious than equivalent clothes for little boys of the same age.

Why?

Why are girls introduced so early to the idea that femininity is connected to displaying the body? And why, as they grow older, is that message reinforced through fashion, advertising, music, dance, films, music videos and social media, where the female body is so often presented through the lens of sexual desirability?

This is not an argument that the female body is inherently provocative. It is not. Nor should women and girls be made responsible for managing other people’s sexuality by simply being told to cover themselves.

The question is not what is wrong with the female body. The question is why our culture and commercial industries so persistently commodify it.

And there is another dimension to this conversation that matters to me: cultural identity.

For many years, much of what we wore was imported—not only the clothes themselves, but increasingly the ideas of what was fashionable, modern, attractive or desirable.

But modernity does not have to mean cultural erasure.

Across our continent, we can see powerful examples of societies that have made their cultural identity part of contemporary fashion. Nigeria, among others, has demonstrated how local fabrics, patterns, craftsmanship and aesthetics can be worn with pride and continuously reimagined for modern lifestyles.

That should challenge us too.

What does contemporary Rwandan fashion look like when it is confident enough to draw from who we are, while remaining creative, youthful and open to the world?

This is not about freezing culture in the past, prescribing one acceptable way of dressing, or rejecting influences from elsewhere. Culture has always evolved. The question is whether we are participating in that evolution as creators, or simply consuming what others create for us.

Industries manufacture aspiration. Algorithms amplify it. Celebrities normalize it. Markets profit from it. And when we do not produce enough of our own cultural references, other people’s definitions of beauty, desirability and modernity can very easily become our own.

So before reducing every conversation about these trends to “the State wants to control our bodies,” perhaps we should encourage our young people—girls and boys alike—to exercise something even more important than the freedom to choose: the critical thinking to interrogate the choices being presented to them.

Who benefits from this trend?
Who defined this as desirable?
Why is sexual visibility so disproportionately expected of the female body?
What parts of ourselves are we losing when we imitate without questioning?
And what could we create if we looked at our own culture not as something belonging to the past, but as material for the future?

Freedom is not only the ability to choose. It is also the ability to understand what is shaping our choices—and the confidence to create alternatives of our own.

[Imbuto Foundation @Imbuto]

Uyu munsi ku bufatanye na @Unity_MemoryRw hasojwe Itorero #ImbutoZitoshye Icyiciro cya 3, rimaze iminsi 10 ribera mu kigo cy' Ubutore cya Nkumba muri @BureraDistrict.
Urubyiruko rwitabiriye iri torero ni abanyeshuri basoje amashuri yisumbuye binyuze mu mushinga #EdifiedGeneration ndetse n' urundi rubyiruko rukorana na Imbuto Foundation mu mishinga itandukanye.

Itorero ryafashije urubyiruko rwitabiriye kurushaho
gusobanukirwa Indangagaciro z’Ubunyarwanda, kongera ubushobozi mu miyoborere, ubufatanye,
gukemura ibibazo no gufata iya mbere mu bikorwa by’iterambere aho batuye.

Amafoto: https://t.co/BoIJkEL5S5

#ImbutoEmpowers
#ImbutoZitoshye

[Best of Rwanda Specialty Coffee Competition @BestOfRwanda26]

The Best of Rwanda 2026 International Jury has started today. The 50 coffees that passed the National Jury are now on the table, being cupped and scored by the international jurors.

#BestofRwanda2026 #RwandaCoffee #InternationalJury #CoffeeCupping #SpecialtyCoffee #Rwanda

[Dr Sabin Nsanzimana @nsanzimanasabin]

Healthy Rwandan plate:

🥬 ½: isombe, dodo & vegetables
🐟 ¼: beans, fish, eggs, chicken or lean beef
🍠 ¼: sweet potato, ibitoki or whole grains
🥑 Small: avocado/groundnuts
🍊 Fruit daily
💧 Water: 2L

ref:WHO recommends ≥400g fruits & vegetables/day.

https://t.co/zNocve8rhm

[Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe @onduhungirehe]

Rwanda's relations with Botswana, Tanzania and South Africa; conflict in eastern DRC and the implementation of the Washington Accords; tensions with Burundi; as well as the campaign for the reelection of Louise Mushikiwabo as Secretary General of the Francophonie were all addressed in my 54-minute interview with @JMunyaneza in "The Context" of @NewTimesRwanda.

https://t.co/xFB2xQu7lZ

[Aston Villa @AstonVilla]

Aston Villa is pleased to announce Visit Rwanda as the club’s Principal Partner, Official Tourism Partner and Official Coffee Provider. 🤝

[Aston Villa @AstonVilla]

The land of a thousand hills meets the city of a thousand trades.

🤝 @VisitRwanda_Now

[Ministry of Youth and Arts | Rwanda @RwandaYouthArts]

Today, the 6th Edition of the #RwandaYouthTour officially kicked off, organized by @RwandaMFA, MoYA, @Rwandapolice & @RwandaYouthClub. The programme brings together young Rwandans from the diaspora to reconnect with Rwanda's history, culture, development journey & opportunities.

[Ministry of Youth and Arts | Rwanda @RwandaYouthArts]

✭ Happening TODAY, June 29! ✭

Join the #YouthConnekt Hangout to learn how to turn your creative passion into a bankable business! We're covering financial readiness, digital monetization, and scaling talent.

🕑 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
📍 EAUR, Kigali Campus

Don’t miss out! 🇷🇼🎨