RudaSingwa

Enfant d'Afrique 🇷🇼🇨🇲

Humanitarian worker

[RudaSingwa @rudasingwamessi]

Merci a la @BM_Afrique @Banquemondiale pour avoir mis en place une plateforme où des jeunes ont enfin l'opportunité de faire entendre leurs voix et partager leur vues sur différents enjeux sociaux. #Blog4dev #Africacan #Rwanda #EndGBV https://t.co/BhLBanLaIJ

[Banque mondiale AFR @BM_Afrique]

Dans le combat contre les violences de genre, la prévention est encore aujourd’hui la meilleure arme.-@rudasingwamessi. Lisez le blog de la gagnante de la compétition #Blog4Dev au #Rwanda: https://t.co/VayNbCc3X4

[Reji @RejiYates]

Tbh calling your significant other “boo” is rooted in ghostbusters.

[Nshimyimana Emmanuel🇷🇼👍 @NshimyimanaEmma]

Dafroza, tu pars debout

Dafroza, tu pars,
Mais tu pars debout.
Tu pars forte,
Tu pars digne,
Tu pars sans tache.

Tu pars en héroïne,
Après avoir consacré ta vie
À combattre le mal,
À défendre la vérité,
À réclamer justice pour ceux
À qui on avait arraché la vie.

Les génocidaires te haïssaient,
Parce que tu refusais le silence.
Ils te craignaient,
Parce que tu portais la vérité.
Ils auraient voulu te faire taire,
Mais ils n'ont jamais pu éteindre ta voix.

Tu as cherché les criminels,
Tu as poursuivi les fugitifs,
Tu as contribué à en conduire plusieurs devant la justice.
Non par vengeance,
Mais pour que la vérité triomphe,
Pour que les victimes retrouvent leur dignité,
Et pour que l'impunité ne gagne jamais.

Pour nous, rescapés du génocide contre les Tutsi,
Tu étais plus qu'une combattante.
Tu étais une voix.
Tu étais une force.
Tu étais une amie de la justice.
Tu étais une amie du Rwanda.

Aujourd'hui, Dafroza, tu pars.
Mais ton combat ne part pas avec toi.
Ton courage reste.
Ta voix reste.
Ton œuvre reste.
Ton nom reste dans nos mémoires.

Nous nous souviendrons de toi.
Nous parlerons de toi.
Nous raconterons ton combat
À ceux qui viendront après nous.

Dafroza,
Tu as fait ta part.
Tu l'as faite avec courage.
Tu l'as faite avec dignité.

Repose en paix.

Et que ceux qui restent
N'oublient jamais
Ce pour quoi tu t'es battue.

[Kizz Savage @savagekizz]

Westlife would never believe this is their track.👀😭

[Gitz  @Gitz__]

Google Photos reminding you of a relationship you had in 2018 that didn't work out.

[Angelique Kidjo @angeliquekidjo]

My new RAPPING career thanks to @Pharrell and @QuavoStuntin 💃🏿
#bando live in Madison, Wisconsin

[roxannat @NicLiamo]

Someone came up with this concept and wrote it. A choreographer spent hours and hours teaching it to these incredible dancers. Someone scouted the location. A director and DP came up with the aesthetic and storyboard. It was framed and lit perfectly. You didn’t create shit!

[RudaSingwa @rudasingwamessi]

@gidikariuki Just let her be

[ᴇʟ ᴍᴜʏ ᴄᴀʟɪᴇɴᴛᴇ 𝕯𝖔𝖈𝖙𝖔𝖗 ᴍᴜᴄʜᴏ ᴄᴀʟᴏʀ @Axel_Gerald_]

les marocains ont dmd ça a rigolé dans les bureaux 💔

[Mayowa @mayowasworld]

But why not have a number set on your own desire and your body’s capacity instead of using your body as a way to gift someone children for good behavior?

[Hashilé 🇸🇳🇲🇱🇳🇬 | Personnage principal @sankurienne]

J’ai vu cette vidéo et je suis 100% d’accord avec ce qu’elle dit.

L’hypersexualisation des corps des femmes est un spectre, et je pense qu’on fait une énorme erreur lorsqu’on imagine que son seul extrême est la femme dénudée en lingerie, sexualisée dans la publicité ou constamment présentée à travers son sex-appeal. Il existe une autre manière d’hypersexualiser les corps des femmes qu’elle explique très bien et c’est le fait de considérer que ces corps sont tellement sexuels qu’ils doivent être constamment dissimulé pour ne pas provoquer le désir masculin.

Dans les 2 cas le point de départ est exactement le même: les corps des femmes sont avant tout appréhendé à travers leur capacité à produire du désir sexuel chez autrui.

[Sosa✧. @vvsosa]

Anything i give you outside this mf bill is a tip

[Ren 𓇢𓆸 @RenYGRR]

it's always something new with these mfs 😭

[oukhty meow meow 🐾 @aidara_khadiija]

buying a new iphone every single year… y’all are under spells!!

[RFI Afrique @RFIAfrique]

Recherche spatiale: le Rwanda a déjà affiché ses ambitions https://t.co/iFvbzG6iX5

[Julliet Njeri 🇰🇪 @JullietNjeri]

What's stopping Kenyans from cleaning homes here instead of cleaning them in Saudi Arabia?
Why go through hell in a foreign country? What's stopping them from succeeding here?
Diaspora Kenyans will give you that answer.

[MÙSAKÙRÙ @musakuru45]

I'm just curious, how does a Burundi guy hawking coffee and mandazi make a kenyan jobless?

[RudaSingwa @rudasingwamessi]

@XandrineUmutoni Policing women’s bodies never ends well. This is a massive step backward!💔

[lazyute @virgoseason4lyf]

At 30 degrees outside, women are being told to cover up the most basic clothing (even shoulders).. is this what we have come to?? Such an embarrassment. why do you care so much about what women are wearing???!!! It’s hot outside, What’re we actually doing? STOP IT

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

Dear Sandrine, ​I have taken the time to read your post carefully point by point, and I want to offer a different perspective on this debate. Please bear with me as it will be long.

While I agree that corporate commodification and media algorithms deserve critical scrutiny, the conclusions you have drawn here, can be quite dangerous as they overlook key historical truths and dismiss personal autonomy.

1. you frame revealing or modern fashion solely as a product of Western commercialization/exploitation, contrasting it with authentic local culture. But that's not entirely true. Indigenous African clothing cultures across the continent including pre-colonial dress in many regions often featured minimal clothing, wraps, and exposed bodies without inherently linking skin to sexual desirability. Framing full coverage as the only culturally authentic alternative is actually an adoption of european modesty standards introduced during colonization, not indigenous heritage.

2. You argue that young women who choose revealing fashion are merely passive victims of algorithms, industries, and foreign influences who lack critical thinking. This infantalizes young people, especially women. It assumes that if a woman chooses to wear modern, body-conscious fashion, she must be brainwashed by western media, rather than exercising genuine personal style, comfort, or agency. Suggesting someone only chooses an outfit because they lack critical thinking is another form of policing.

3. You attempted to redefine freedom not as the right to choose what to wear, but as understanding what shapes our choices. But real freedom requires both critical awareness and the bodily autonomy to wear what one chooses without state, cultural, or moral judgment. One can critically understand how fashion industries work and still choose to wear a short dress simply because they like how it looks. Redefining freedom to exclude bodily choice sets up a dangerous slope toward state regulation under the pretense of protecting people from themselves.

4. You ask why sexual visibility is so disproportionately expected of the female body framing exposure as an expectation forced upon girls. You are partially correct but expecting women to modify their expression to resist commercialization unfairly make women's bodies as the battleground for cultural integrity. Men also consume globalized fashion (streetwear, suits, western labels), yet their choices are rarely framed as a threat to national identity or cultural erasure.

Critiquing global capitalism as you did is valid, but using that critique to invalidate women's personal choices and police their bodies is not. True cultural confidence lies in trusting young people especially women to exercise their bodily autonomy freely.

The issue has always been the oversexualization of women's bodies rather than the clothes they are wearing. You should ask yourself how do we create a society where no matter what a woman wears she won't be sexualized and her body won't be a battleground of cultural integrity