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This is OBSCENE! Shame is not a word strong enough! The memories of our loved ones deserve better than to be used in this way by a state that is actively right now committing a genocide. SHAME!
WATCH: Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived Sunday morning in Kigali, where he will join Rwandans and friends of
#Rwanda
at the 30th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
#Kwibuka30
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Just saw a question on how to handle "race" in the context of global health and here's two things I go to:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore's "Racism is the state sanctioned and/or extralegal production of group differentiated vulnerability to premature death"
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We told Phaïna to be extra for her birthday party and extra is what she delivered!!!!
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🧵 Tomorrow marks 30 years since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi…30 years of saying Never Again (again) and 30 years of watching it happen again and again and again
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Honestly, take Rwanda off every progressive on women list at this point
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I just saw someone write "kabisa" as "kb100" in a comment section and...I can't do this anymore
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My siblings actually in real life look like this. My heaaaaart 😭😍🖤🖤
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For this
#WorldMentalHealthDay2022
, I want to tell you all about a friend of mine. Veneranda Ufitwenaryo has been running a home for abandoned youth with mental illness in Kamonyi since around 1998.
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Reminder that the Rwandan COVID-19 response task force is heavily driven by young women 🙌🏾 love to see it
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I just want us to get real about the fact that we CANNOT address the issue of young people abusing alcohol at this alarming rate without impacting the profitability of the alcohol industry. We have to choose. There is no both!
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In front of god, the state, and the ancestors. Certified love!!!!
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Abantu bavuga biriya bya "ibi ni byo nanjye sinakwemera ko mama cyangwa umwana wanjye yasohoka yambaye kuriya" baransetsa...nonese boss njyewe uranshakaho iki ko ntari nyoko cg umwana wawe?
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Everyday, I am more and more convinced that if we completely disbanded MINEDUC and rebuilt it from scratch it would cost less than keeping it running like this
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Rest well, tantine Alice 🤍 this woman held me thru theee messiest years of my early 20s when my relationship with my mom was rough af. A wonderful human being with the biggest heart and infectious joy. So grateful to have loved and been loved by you! This just sucks 💔
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I think the thing I’m never gonna get used to is the fact that some people (even African people) truly never even consider the fact that poor African people might know what they want and that those things might be different from the things being organized “for” them
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If there’s a fund for Liliane’s legal fees share it plis. She shouldn’t have to shoulder the burden of this stupidity alone
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It’s April again. It’s always crazy to think about the fact that my mother had just come back to Kigali on Easter (April 3rd) in 1994. I get stuck on that detail sometimes. I hope you have people who love you around and that you get to hold others and be held thru this time 🤍
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I feel like I haven't said this in a while but damn Rwandan women are gorgeous!!!
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Who got accepted into her grad school program of choice?
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Heyy so over the craziness of the past few weeks I didn’t properly geek out about the fact that I officially got 💵 to start my PhD research in the "Towards dignity-based knowledge practices in GH" project at Sydney Uni in July.
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I can't remember who it was but whoever it was that said 1er Gaou has done more for Pan-Africanism than the African Union...I hope they're having a great day
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I'm sorry but old school (tbh probably not just old school) Rwandan "educators" are so pathologically obsessed with breaking children's spirits. It's really disturbing the lengths y'all will go to to justify the unfounded rules you place these kids under.
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and Alana Lentin's "race as a technology for the management of human difference, the main goal of which is the production, reproduction, and maintenance of white supremacy on both a local and a planetary scale"
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Heyy it’s been 4 months since I stopped drinking. I think my least favourite part is people reading this decision as a religious or marriageability thing. Sis, I just had an anxiety hangover once and realized I couldn’t hang no mo I’m otherwise still as heathenous as ever pls lol
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Poor girl goes to school
Poor girl gets zero sex education
Poor girl gets pregnant
Poor girl gets rejected from school
Poor girl gives birth to poor girl
repeat ad infinitum
This cannot truly be what y'all are going for, can it
@Rwanda_Edu
? Do better.
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This picture! I took this picture in quite possibly the deepest hole I've ever been in mentally. My mom and my brother dragged me out of bed and took me to the farm and made me walk for hours. When I came home I booked an appointment with a psychiatrist 💜
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Heyyyy...thanks to everyone who sent me good vibes these past couple weeks! I got the job I was up for and I'm super excited about it. Anyways, yea...thanks. I start Monday :D
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I don't think I've said this on here but my masters final project is basically a policy roadmap for the design and implementation of mental health education in Rwandan secondary schools.
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I tweet for the girlies who grew up "tom-boys", overcorrected to "high femme" in the teens, and now exist in a beautiful balance of masculine and feminine energy ✊🏾
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I've been working to get the law changed to allow for teenagers to access SRHR products without parental consent since I was in college. That's almost 10 years and this is always how they respond. Meanwhile every single year the teen pregnancy numbers go up.
🚨AMAKURU MASHYA🚨
Inteko Rusange, Umutwe w'Abadepite yanze kwemeza ishingiro ry'umushinga w'itegeko ryerekeye ubuzima bw’imyororokere.
Uyu mushinga wanzwe, wateganyaga ko ingimbi n'abangavu bagejeje ku myaka 15 bakwemererwa guhabwa serivisi zo kuboneza urubyaro.
#RBAAmakuru
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It’s a scary time in EA but I think everyone should be careful not to write over the experiences and voices of Rwandan queer people who have been asking for formal legal protection and are often met with the chorus of “at least there are no laws persecuting you.”
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It's mad to see a neighborhood be simultaneously marketed for its "uniqueness" while being stripped of what is special/interesting about it in real time. It's hard for me to not see this ban on Adhan as like a step in the ongoing attempt to gentrify Nyamirambo
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I just had a flash back to when I tried to search this dude's name who I had a crush on on FB (a long time ago) and instead ended up posting his full name 5 times as my status. I shall go bury myself now. thanks
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If these people truly wanted to address youth alcohol consumption they would be addressing alcohol advertising, creating and supporting more recovery services and options, sober socializing options, and better economic opportunities but noooo it’s actually the shirt dresses u no
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There's an actual epidemic of unqualified people doing mental health work that puts them in contact with people who are seeking care or suffering and there's gotta be a policy or law to protect people from the harm that brings. Jesus you need more than good vibes to provide care
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My sister’s in the kitchen making a feast and my contribution is occasionally walking in to say “wow” 😌
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"Health under capitalism is an impossibility. Under capitalism, to attain health you must work, you must be productive and normative, and only then are you entitled to the health you can buy.
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One thing about Rwanda is every time I leave my house I end up surrounded by some of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen. 10/10
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<<If you're not Rwandan, I did not write this for you. Continue to mind your business por favor>> I wrote a thing flowing from the questions I was asking about RDB this morning. Give it a read won't ya 🙏🏾
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Dressing appropriately for Kigali weather is a skill you should be able to put on your CV
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My mom and some other elders of her family decided they wanna document their family history because it’s all so fragmented in different people’s memories and they’re having my sister do it and I think that’s the coolest thing! Yaass put the writers in your family to work!
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It should concern us all that so many people cannot even imagine ways to deal with children who need support that do not involve further stripping them of their rights and freedom...we're actually broken
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Hey...you're ENOUGH!
Just in case no one (including you) has told you in a while.
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One thing I am not looking forward to about the Kigali streets is being hit on by tall children that I have to look up to to tell them to go find their age mates 😭😭
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Job hunting in Kigali is what nightmares are made of. Pray for a girl!
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Making children pay the price for having an outdated, unprepared education system is quite an interesting move babes
JUST IN: Education minister
@Dr_Uwamariya
announces that over 60,000 candidates – 44,176 for PLE and 16,466 for O'Level – who did not get the pass mark will have to repeat class.
Private schools will not be allowed to admit students who failed the national examinations.
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Banning the call to prayer for "noise pollution" is such a terribly shitty move man...and like right before Ramadan? SMH I hope our Muslim communities get heard on this 🤍
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Spending a week in sweats in front of a computer screen almost made me forget that I’m actually cute u no 😘
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Oh to wake up in the mountains that raised my mother 🤍
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No place I would have rather spent the day (other than my mother’s house) than in the street with thousands of young old and in between peoples calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza and an end to imperialism everywhere! Until Palestine is free! Until all of us are free!
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I dunno maybe I’m childish and unwise as they say but the way I see it if you wanna be celebrated for being safe for women then you should be safe for women…not tell women who point out that they’re unsafe to shut up
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I...just received that "we're pleased to inform you..." email I was waiting for and like...what?
#Shook
I am unable to comprehend.
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My family 🤝🏾 making everything a cake celebration!
If I ever have to do this life thing over again put me back with this same exact band of beautiful weirdos 🙏🏾
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There’s a way we call a lot of normal and expected reactions to deteriorating social and economic conditions “mental health issues” that makes me want to cry
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The other day I was at the market with my mom and someone came up to us and said ngo tubafashe iki abamama 😭😭😭 walahi mujye mugenda neza hanze aha hari abagome
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Petition to ban the words “wowe ni ryari” from our language. Fenks!
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It's Phaïna's birthday y'all! 60 years of being iconic and one of the funniest humans I've met. What a woman and what a life! To many more years of your love and laughter, mama 🖤
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The fact that this country wakes up everyday and keeps going is just fucking remarkable. Ihorere Rwanda 💜
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Imagine the moves you have to make not to get your natural hair wet in this shower. Chilayy
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I love people’s laughs so much! I think that’s when people are their most beautiful..when they lose themselves in a fit of laughter 😍
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If I hear that we need more mental health awareness one more time I will scream. We need laws and policies that protect people from discrimination and harm and policies that make people's lives more livable we've been doing awareness for decades try something different FGS
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The favouritest support team you could ever have AKA forehead exhibit
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We should have a book exchange ting in Kigali because me I've officially run thru my book budget for the year shaaan 😭
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I just thought of the fact that I’m turning 30 this year and LOL they really do be letting anyone turn 30 these days. Zero qualifications.
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The way people wield that “you must hate your country if you dare criticize it” bit is very NORMAL!
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Every Rwandan artist who doesn’t pull out of that predator’s show, every sponsor, we see you! Congrats on being on the wrong side of humanity. I hope you never have to know what it feels like to be violated in the way Koffi Olomide has violated countless women and girls
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I hate everything about this. Everything. Bar all moral grossness...how is this not a sheer waste of public resources?
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I just officially enrolled in grad school. Yo, if my brain chemistry has a mortal enemy it’s academia. I’m skressed but hopeful that the tips I’ve learned throughout the years and my school’s MH accommodations will make this experience different from undergrad🤞🏾
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Reminder that being gay is not a crime in Rwanda and discrimination on that basis is a violation of our constitution
Ikipe ya United Stars yo mu Kabagari, yahagaritse by'agateganyo Eric Mushimiyimana wari umutoza wayo mu gihe hakomeje iperereza ry'uko ashobora kuba ari umutinganyi nk'uko ibaruwa yandikiwe n'iyi kipe ibisobanura.
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One of the very few things I hold firmly is that if you think good things about people you should make sure they know :)
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As my friend, we can disagree on white bread vs multigrain bread. We can even disagree on J Cole's "music". We cannot, however, hold opposing views on whether women, BIPOC, poor people, lgbtq+ people deserve to live full lives.
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Tomorrow's April 7th. Be there for each other. Be gentle with each other. And know that people process differently. There's no right way.
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You would think it’s not small small short dress and mini skirt that have these our men foaming at the mouth on public television. Sirrrrrs, cost of living crisis have you heard of her? Focus!
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Happy Monday to really tall women! Keep on being the majestic beings that you are 😍😍😍
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Imagine sticking your neck out like that for an abuser of women and girls! Anyway the concert maybe a private matter but entry into the country isn't. If the gov REALLY wanted to walk that "16 days of activism" talk they wouldn't allow that man into our country
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Gotta love Rwandan men sha. One day they're confessing their love for you and a week later handing you an invitation to their wedding
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We (in public health) talk so much about how community health workers are the heroes of public health in every single crisis…until it’s time to pay them. Like are they essential or are they not? Answer only in money not op-eds please
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@JollyMutesi
I hope you know that what you said in that video is harmful and perpetuates the unequal blame we place on young girls while continuously failing to give them the tools and skills to navigate something that is difficult even for adults
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12-4-1994 Rest well, grandpa! We’re taking great care of your baby girl. 💜
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A reminder that all outrage about women's "nudity" has nothing to do with nudity and everything to do with controlling women...especially when coming from people whose ancestors were living titties out just yesterday. Ubukoloni ni hatari sha
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