If you dream it, you can achieve it
Ever since she was little, Muna Kelechi had an incredible passion for fashion, she would spend hours creating doll clothes and dreaming about starting her own clothing business. When she earned her degree in fashion, Muna started working as an assistant designer for a fashion firm near her home. Although her job was paying well […]
Rwandans should support their own music
If you have been to a club, party or any event where music is played; most of the time ‘foreign’ music takes the highest percentage on the playlist not because there are no local artistes with good music, but because DJ’s claim to be playing the ‘people’s favorites’ which in this case is music from […]
From ‘International Relations’ to Journalism-Aimee Mushashi
Its not news any more when one studies something but then choose to do something else: ‘Passion over Professionalism’; after-all, we are told each day to ‘do what we like so that we don’t have to work a single day’. Graduating from University of Rwanda(UR) with a Bachelors Degree in ‘International Relations’ didn’t imply that […]
Art as way of speaking to people
Art is one of the open ways of talking to people; the emotions, feelings and all untold stories make people feel connected. The love to try new things through; heavy strokes of impression, flow of texture, torn foundry, engage different colors and grayscales in bright and dark backgrounds is what gave birth to ROBERT SENGA’s […]
Art for ‘Therapy’
Teta does her art on sensitive subjects that people don’t often talk about as a form of therapy. Originally, Michelin Teta’s dream was to be a film producer but as she grew older, she was constantly creating ‘small things’ thus taking ART as a subject at ECOLE D’ARTS DE NYUNDO during her high school. With […]
Your mobile phone can be your employment
Josie Mukundete after completion of high school in 2021 searched for a job but in vain. She then resorted to her smart phone to be the source of income by recording events from Rwanda and posting them on her brother’s YouTube channel-‘The Ask’. With time, she started her own channel; ‘Josie Rw’ which showcased the […]
Changing the World through Poetry-Lebon
Born “Muragizi Israel”, but known in the poetry industry as Lebon is a 22 year old Rwandan who is changing lives through his art of writing. Inspired by the book “African women’s poetry” that he read during his senior five, Lebon has written poems of over 50pages. “I write poems to make people happy and […]
Cracking the Rwandan film industry at a young age
Producing blockbuster movies that would compete nation wide and internationally was Gahanzi Kenan’s dream. During the pandemic(COVID-19), he produced his first movie titled ‘SORROW THE BEGINNINIG’ a short movie about a nineteen year old addict who lost his family in a car accident. The success of ‘sorrow the beginning’ motivated Kenan to work on another […]
Born to be a ‘fashion designer’
Its true we shouldn’t always give in to peer pressure of what people say about us although sometimes, a word of encouragement from a friend or loved one is all we need to go after our dream. Igihozo Ntaganira during her early age was always reassured by her peers that she could be a model […]
I connect with people through music-DJ Kleen
“The best part of being a deejay is that I have the ability to connect with people through music.” Known to Kigali ‘clubbers’ as DJ Kleen: born Taremwa Herbert, says he has loved music all his life. “When I was young, I could spend a lot of time in my room imagining myself as a […]
