Ten years ago, President Paul Kagame started the Rwanda Presidential Scholarship Programme, whose main objective is to build the country's human resource. About 20 universities in the United States of America have partnered with the government on this programme that has so far benefited hundreds of young Rwandans.
Some of the scholars have already returned home to contribute towards nation-building. One of them is Jean-Léon Iragena, a graduate of Applied Mathematics and Quantitative Economics from Millsaps College in Mississippi, who return home a day after his graduation. He told Sunday Times why he rushed back home.
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