KajyibwamiNotes

                                                Growing up I was a loner kid. Most of my agemates played football which I was not interested in. I was not interested in any common sport, when my dad one day asked me what kind of sport I liked because it was a repeated question, I lied to him that I liked basketball. One evening my mom gave me two children's books, since then I cultivated the culture of reading and it has been my favorite hobby since then. Reading also cultivated in me the love of writing as I’m doing so. Family plays a big role in one’s life, and one of the parents’ assignments is to prepare their children to be the next players in forming a family which is the foundation of any society. Rwanda recognizes the importance and role of families in safeguarding cultural values. The concept of family generally goes beyond the definition which conceiv...

  Since my childhood, I always expressed myself saying that I have rights; in my mother tongue uburenganzira. My father as a sociologist asked me a simple question, do you know the deep meaning of uburenganzira? When you separate the word uburenganzira in two parts, you will find kurenga and inzira, means to go beyond the route. As a sociologist he wanted to make a point that as a society there are rules to follow and he added that where your rights ends are where others rights start. As a lawyer and a human rights enthusiast plus having a background in history studies, I always like to analyze different human rights issues from a historical perspective and looking deeply into the effects in the present time. This is another episode. I always wanted to know at what level since the ancient time, how Rwandans respected each other as human beings. Rwanda’s history goes back to the era of the iconic figure, ‘ Gihanga Ngomijana’ believed to have initiated this land of a thousand h...