“If I were to consider a bad day as the day that ends without experiencing the joy of a new thought or idea, I would say I am in my dark days.” There is something about a new (refers to new to my mind :)) thought or idea. Do you…

My relationship with art has always been a complicated one. I have never appreciated the paintings. I like other forms of art, such as music and poetry, but paintings have always felt like a sign of the limitations of a person’s ability to describe his imagination accurately. Other people would…

Leading Insights on Science, Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Social Innovation Why towards Africa? With all exciting developments in many sectors on the African content, Towards Africa wants to provide a symposium of all great ideas and methodologies from Africans or about Africa. Towards Africa offers its contribution in two ways: Providing…

If you tell a set of new start-up founders that they are to fail in a few years, there is a ridiculously high possibility that you are right. Someone may point that even Silicon Valley, the bedrock of innovation, fails on higher rate too. That is true. According to a…

I am fond of my neighborhood. It has an exquisite view with a chilling wind in the morning while I am sweeping in front of the wooden fence. The mud-built houses are parallel with a trail in between. Most of them look alike in their simplicity. A small garden, full…

life of a boy in the aftermath of 1994 Tutsi genocide in the eyes of a young lad. “ Mpereza iyo ferabeto nkimene umutwe” — “Pass me that re-bar, and I bust his head into pieces,” uttered one of the neighbors, Claude, a tall old man with reddish eyes that…

It was at the beginning of the first millennium on human creatures’ calendar, when Nkuba, the lord of the sky, acceded to send one of his own on an errand on earth: his newborn son, Sabizeze — who bore from milk and honey.As Sabizeze was still…