Kigali, April 13—few experiences are as refreshing as meeting a Sub-Saharan African city or town that comes close to typifying what a city should be.
Kigali is that.
From the grassy, beautifully manicured medians to the unfailing traffic lights, to the smooth road network to the absolute civil order across the city, Kigali brings profound warmth to the heart.
A tiny city of little commerce, a thin population and an unremarkable skyline, Kigali makes up for all that stunning lack of sophistication with its breathtaking neatness, civil discipline and administrative efficiency.
If to visit down-town Kampala is to be in hell and back, a visit to Kigali is a visit to Heaven.
The contrast is stark as that! That Rwanda, a tiny, extraordinarily poor nation that’s still eclipsed by its genocidal horrors, can marshal its minute efforts and construct an organised and sensible city and all Uganda’s NRM can do—with the vast resources at its disposal—is manage a garbage-strewn, flood-swathed Kampala is one of the most numbing paradoxes of our time.
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