June - August 2006 Edition of The Eye Magazine Rwanda

What do you want to have done by the year 2020? Any ideas? Rwanda knows exactly what it wants to do: transform the economy into that of a middle income country. It wants per capita GDP increased in an equitable way from $25078 to $900; to reduce the number of poor people to 25 percent of the population.
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Our family recently moved to Rwanda after extended stints in the East Africa region. One of the joys of living in the region is our own family explorations. Until the last month, we had seen most of Rwanda.
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I must admit to being a lover of all different cuisines from around the world! One of my all-time favourites, though, are the many varied and different tastes found in the cuisine from the Indian Continent, so it was a pleasant surprise to find that Kigali has several, very good, Indian restaurants.Read More

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To begin to understand how any wine is made we must first look at the composition of the grape. If you take any grape - black, red or green - and slice it through the middle it looks much the same: The stalk is woody and full of a substance called tannin. Tannin is a preservative with a bitter flavour. Read More

Kivu Sun boasts a five star rating and is situated in the eat of Rwanda just 100m from the Congolese border and the town of Goma.  Kivu Sun is the sister hotel to the Intercontinental Hotel in Kigali, both are managed impeccably by the southern Sun Group. Read More

Alexandra Fuller’s vibrant account of her childhood growing up in the former Rhodesia and later Malawi is testimony to the harsh reality of growing up amid the chaos of the violent road to African Independence.The chaos of war and independence forms the backdrop to Fuller’s mainly hilarious, often angry and occasionally tragic family life. Read More

Restaurant Review: Kivu Sun
Book Review: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs tonite