• Susan Thomson

Rwanda’s president has long practiced a zero-sum political game in which he and his cronies are the primary winners.

• Susan Thomson

Paul Kagame has won with more than 90 percent of the vote in 3 successive presidential elections in Rwanda.

• Anjan Sundaram

Rwanda’s constitution was changed in 2016 to allow Kagame to stay in power until 2034.

• Aurore Iradukunda

"White person!," people passing by shout, smiling and waving at me. I am black. I am African. I am Rwandan."

• Dan Magaziner

Dan Magaziner gets to shake the hand of Paul Kagame, a man many consider a dictator at best and a war criminal at worst.

• Michael Busch

Anjan Sundaram’s Rwanda exists in an authoritarian bubble characterized by fear and repression.

• Clive Gabay

When it comes to Africa, as Wole Soyinka recently wrote in his book "Of Africa," the West is constantly careening between hope and despair, Rwanda and Mandela

• Africa Is a Country

• Katarina Hedrén

Ruhorahoza wished he made "Sans Soleil" by Chris Marker: "The film is a good example of the work of a filmmaker who has reached maturity and an artist who is truly free."

• Taylor Mayol

It is a lot to ask the world to accept the multiple truths of Rwanda and it was too much for the film to explain this picture in all of its complicated nuance and actually share with us what remains untold about Rwanda’s story.

• Alex Kane

• Africa Is a Country

• Suchitra Vijayan

On those images by South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, pairing perpetrators and victims of the 1994 Genocide.

• Natacha Nsabimana

Africa: helping white people who are a bit down-in-the-dumps, feel better about themselves since 1884.

• Anneeth Kaur Hundle

Once again, The New York Times doesn't inform Western audiences about the complexities of governance in Africa or the agency of those who are ruled.

• Prasanto Kumar Roy

• Tom Devriendt

• Andrea Stultiens

In which category would the South African photographer Pieter Hugo place himself? What do they stand for or what his photographs can and cannot tell.

• Basia Cummings

The Rwandan film, "Grey Matter," is part of prestigious traveling film exhibition, the Global Film Initiative.

• Dan Moshenberg

When does being a Rwandan woman matter? When that woman is a killer, a rapist, a torturer, a `monster.’ Not when she is an organizer and a healer.