It has been a while since I first thought about writing the following column. I always delayed its redaction for many (bad) reasons (lack of time, family issues, travel opportunities, work, etc.). But tonight I decided to take the bull by the horns, sit down and start defining all I want to say about an amazing country called Rwanda. Like many children borned in 1984, I was old enough to understand and live through television some historical moments which left its mark on humankind forever.
Some were happy and let me very positive feelings (Fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, Bill Clinton's Presidency etc.). Ohers were quite traumatizing (Iraq invasion of Kuwait, First Persian Gulf War, etc.). However, for me the worst memory ever was the Rwandan civil war and Genocide in 1994, during which around 800,000 people died in awful mass killing.
When I started looking for information for writing my master thesis, I remembered a fascinating article about how the Rwandan government was doing everything for making Rwanda an ICT hub, with the ambition of being the IT leader of Africa. So when it was about pick a country for my research, I finally chose Kenya and Rwanda. What I discovered just blew me away.