Rwanda: Spare US the Traumatic Experience of Paris Hilton

7 November 2007

Normally, when an international personality decides to come to Rwanda and then has to postpone the visit, this is bad news. We had Bill Clinton, Quincy Jones, Bill and Melinda Gates, amongst others. If any of those people, who can boast of significant achievements in their respective fields, would have cancelled his/her trip, it would have been a setback.

However, it is equally bad news when somebody who is a celebrity despite herself decides to come and help poor Rwanda. Therefore, when hotel heiress and 23-day convict Paris Hilton announced last week that she would postpone her visit to Rwanda scheduled for this month, these were good tidings indeed.

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