Rwandans will celebrate their 50th independence annivassary on July 1,2012 but this time also merged with the 18th liberation usually commemorated on July 4 when the Rwanda patriotic Front rebels captured Kigali.
Prof Wole Soyinka a Nigerian academic is scheduled to speak at an international conference organised as part of independence celebrations.
Deliberations of the conference will commence under the theme; Governance and Democracy: an African Perspective.
The Rwanda Governance Board (RGD) said in a statement, “the 1986 Nobel Laureate for Literature will be among speakers including AfDB president, Dr. Donald Kaberuka.
Also Several other speaks have been lined up for the event including; former US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Affairs, Dr. Jendai Frazer, Prof.
Margee Ensign – President of American University of Nigeria and Kenya’s trade minister, Moses Wetangula among others.
The conference scheduled for June 30 has been co-organised by Government of Rwanda in partnership with the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
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