By David Himbara
General Paul Kagame has launched a new government Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement. The role of the Ministry is to teach national unity, historical memory and citizenship education. There can be no doubt that Kagame’s new ministry is about indoctrination and propaganda. This thinking is hardly new in Kagame’s Rwanda. Indoctrination and propaganda are already being aggressively pursued at the smallest administrative entity known as Umudugudu or village of which there are 14,837 across the country. With a population of 12 million, each Umudugudu is responsible for governing 803 Rwandans on average.
Among the responsibilities of Umudugudu as…
