Rwanda Nziza Craft Store

William Snyder writes: I would like to alert you to a small, new craft store, Rwanda Nziza, in Kigali. I have worked with one of the directors, Gilbert Kubwimana, for the last two years. Gilbert is the RW representative for Songa Designs, a company in the US that imports Rwanda crafts. Gilbert has taken me …

Inema Art Centre, Kigali

Emmanuel & Innocent Nkurunziza have sent me the following info about their art centre: Founded in 2012 by brothers and self-taught painters Emmanuel Nkuranga and Innocent Nkurunziza, the Inema Arts Centre's mission is to spur creativity for personal, social, and economic growth. At its core, Inema provides space for 10 artists-in-residence to explore their creative talent. Specialising …

Rwanda trip report (Sept 2010)

Many thanks for your excellent Bradt guidebook to Rwanda, which we found invaluable. Overall, we found Rwanda to be a beautiful and fascinating country, with scenery dominated by steep hills and/or lakes in most areas of the country. It seems to have made remarkable progress since the terrible genocide in 1994 and has strong ambitions …