In October, 1998, Belgian journalist Peter Verlinden spent three hours interviewing an African-born Belgian rancher, Marcel Gerin, and his Mexican-born wife Gloria Martinez. The couple managed the Mpanga Ranch in southeastern Rwanda, a popular tourist stop near the southern extremity of Akagera

“Your guilt is our power . . . No white person can say what they really think  . . . because they don’t have the moral authority.”--Shelby Steele, Harvard University, in the Globe and Mail, Oct. 20, 2007

 

In four decades of journalism, I’ve been called of a lot of things. But no one has ever

Last month, John Honderich, the former publisher of Canada’s biggest paper, the Toronto Star, wrote an impassioned opinion piece in the Star about the sorry state of press freedom in Rwanda. Honderich was upset with Rwandan president Paul Kagame. It seems that in July, Kagame ordered the sacking

 

"Rwanda's key dilemma is how to build a democracy that can incorporate a guilty majority alongside an aggrieved and fearful minority in a single political community."-- Mahmood Mamdani, “When Victims Become Killers.”

Eric Kazamarande has the chest, shoulders and heavy hands of a construction

Umberto Eco says a real hero is always a hero by mistake, that he dreams of being an honest coward like everyone else. It’s an aphorism that Paul Rusesabagina may soon take to heart. Heroism for the world’s most high-profile Rwandan is fast becoming a burden, with every humanitarian medal he