Dear colleagues:
Below please find an article from today's "On Leadership" column from the Washington Post online edition "Rwanda's hero-leader: an effective contrarian."
President Paul Kagame invited Nicolas Sarkozy to Kigali last week. This was the first visit by a French president to Rwanda in a quarter-century. It comes just months after Rwanda joined the United Kingdom's Commonwealth of Nations and confirmed it would no longer use French as the main language in its primary schools, thus making a clear break with its Francophone past. As President Kagame has said, "Sometimes, the best strategy is reconciling what others believe are opposites."
Kagame's critics say that he foments the war in Eastern Congo and suppresses opposition parties. These views are inconsistent with so much about Kagame, and their attributions strike me as caricature constructed out of a collage of past African autocrats. I have known President Kagame since 2000 and seen him succeed where so many other leaders have failed. I find him to be as inflexible as a Jesuit on moral principles, even as he is open-minded and creative on tactics...
Read more: http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/guestinsights/2010/02/paul-kagame-leadership.html
Best,
Jessica Ullrich
Jessica Ullrich
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