by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Mar 16, 2022 | Essays
First posted on Facebook on 14 March 2019 © 2019 A. Happy UmwagarwaAll Rights Reserved. From our PAST to our FUTURE through our PRESENT. Is history written or taught to uplift us or erase our existence? When the task to write history is left in the hands...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Mar 8, 2022 | Essays
First posted on Facebook on 08 March 2021 © 2021 A. Happy UmwagarwaAll Rights Reserved. Celebrating A Woman – Happy Women’s Day 2022 Yes, I’m a girl, a woman, a girlfriend, a partner, a fiancée, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, etc. (Not in...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Oct 4, 2021 | Essays
For Everything We Are, Our Nothingness Matters. A guest post/personal essay by David Livingstone Gashagaza. To the fellow human being I met down the street who thought that I was just a black guy with locks, To my classmates who thought I was just a guy from Africa,...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Jul 19, 2021 | Essays
I Dwell In You, You Dwell In Me, For Eternity. A Personal Essay on Death and Life Eternity. Almost all of us love life. Many of us fear death. However, many of us use death to protect our life. Some of us end our life by committing suicide. Some of us kill those we...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Feb 12, 2021 | Essays
When You Don’t Look Like Your Nationality I grew up in one of the busiest neighborhoods of Kigali, a place known as 40, where Biryogo shakes hands with Nyamirambo. A large number of our neighbors were foreigners. To make enough playmates, it was a must to speak...
by A. Happy Umwagarwa | Jan 22, 2021 | Essays
“So, here you are, too foreign for home, too foreign for here, and never enough for both,” are the words of the Nigerian poet, Ijeoma Umebinyuo. This is what was on my mind as I reflected on how elites in my country, Rwanda, and other African countries, live as if we...
