Rwanda: Can We Rely On Young Africans in the Diaspora?

17 January 2014

On a wet Monday evening after an eight-hour shift interning at the United Kingdom's Parliament at Westminster, I board one of London's renowned red double-decker bus heading back home to South West London.

I am one of many thousands of young African Diasporas trying to accumulate enough skills, knowledge and experience in anticipation that one day they will be applied towards the development of Africa, and in my case, Rwanda in particular. We are a generation of Africans who have had invaluable opportunities to study at some of the world's top universities and consequently gained academic qualifications that rival our European and American counterparts.

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