When you approach the crowd that sell and buy there, from afar the market appears to be the biggest chaos you can imagine. But, it has its order. If you mingle with the people who lay out their merchandise on the ground, you will realize that, although there are no selling stands, and the spots are up for grabs, it all makes a lot of sense...

Margarette Mushoga is the oldest Rwandan alive. The inhabitants of Kivumu, a village some 40 kilometers from the capital of Kigali, claim that she’s more than 100 years old, while she, on the other hand, believes she’s 120 years old. At any rate, she buried her husband more than 30 years ago, and time has been of very little significance to...

Joseph and Adolphine are the main protagonists of this short story from Kivumu.

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Hail poured down on all of Kivumu. In just half an hour, the ground was covered with several centimetres of it. And four hours later, which can be seen on the photos, everything was still white because of the huge amount of ice that had fallen. Our fellow-villagers now have to deal with the damage that was done, and it isn’t small at all. All crops were destroyed...

After he completed his own schooling, he immediately got a job in CFJ Padri Vjeko School, but not as a teacher. His first job involved the “in-school production area”. He made desks, chairs, cupboards, etc. for the classrooms. During his time off, he worked to perfect his trade skills by furnishing many houses in the village. By making three...