Tag: Kigali /Rwanda/
altitude: 1,567 m/ 5,141 ft
estimated population: 1,200,000
Rwanda’s Kigali is the sparklingly-clean and highly organised aviation hub of the Gorilla Highlands region, a city that few visitors expect to find in the centre of Africa. Smooth tarmac connects brand-new buildings and three national parks in three different directions: Akagera, Nyungwe and Volcanoes.
The must-see attraction is the beautiful memorial museum that bears witness to the genocide against the Tutsis that shook the country in 1994. While it also features similar crimes against humanity elsewhere in the world, its primary message is the power of Rwanda’s reconciliation, resilience and potential.
Our Stories:
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9 Observations of Kigali, Rwanda, by an Expert Africa Amateur
Hello to all, my name is Anika Utke. I am an eighteen year old American and the newest addition to the Gorilla Highlands team. My life one year ago is unrecognizable from my life today. I was a kid in high school that had never been out of the country before and was spending countless…
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Kigali-Based & Professionalised
Five years ago, on 22 December 2011, the Gorilla Highlands initiative was first made public. We circulated a photocopied concept sheet at a Banyakigezi convention at White Horse Inn in Kabale stating:– the region had immense tourism potential but suffered from remoteness, insufficient travel information, excessive focus on gorillas and lack of branding– the “Gorilla Highlands”…
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Masozera Something in Between
Never had I thought there would come a time in my life when I would want to explore myself. Conquer my fears…. Walk.
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Teddy Bear
“Too good to be true,” recently said Barrett Nash when we discussed a fascinating woman. He meant it literally; he had been shaken up by the realities of life one too many times. Paradoxically, Nash* is the very definition of too good to be true in its more common, less fatalist version. It is hard to…
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Vegetarian Bonanza
I know people who love keeping secrets. It gives them a feeling of security or, in some other cases, perhaps some perverted sense of power. “I know what you don’t know. He he he,” their smirks seem to communicate. As another writer on the Gorilla Highlands blog once humorously revealed, local African cultures value tight-lipped…
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Kigali Crying
Yesterday’s Silverchef announcement reminded me of where I was with my life six months ago and where I do not want to be again. This morning I registered a company called MYL with my partner Isabelle, in Kigali, a picturesque city of blue, black and red roofs sprayed over green rolling hills. There are currently…
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Life-Saving Blood Straight from the Sky
What a handy coincidence! On Friday we talked about two different Africas and how drones could be used to supervise Sudanese people’s security. On the same day Rwanda launched the first commercial drone delivery service in the world, a more efficient way to supply medical centres. The most interesting part is that these robot airplanes…
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From Squirrel to Unicorn (Volunteer Life Part II)
When I arrived in East Africa on KLM airlines, I was excited/nervous/curious and really, really tired. I flew in with another student from my Carpe Diem gap year program, who was also going to volunteer in Uganda, at a special needs education centre. The interesting part about our situation of arrival was that we landed…
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