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Ugandan student chosen to learn from world-class innovators at Silicon Valley

July 3, 2025 AFRICA, NEWS, TECH NEWS 0

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan student Hakim Nakaana Kakooza was among 14 students from the African Leadership University (ALU) who participated in the fourth annual Silicon Valley Global Leadership Programme — a transformative, month-long trip designed to nurture entrepreneurial leadership and technological expertise. The programme, hosted at Stanford …

Rwanda dials up investment opportunities by playing to its strengths

October 16, 2017 Business, In The Magazine, Rwanda 0

My first impressions of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, largely agreed with the ‘Singapore of Africa’ analogies I’ve heard and read about. Things are efficient, orderly and extremely clean. Rwanda | Jaco Maritz | The difference between Rwanda and some other East African countries can be likened to removing yellow-tinted sunglasses after …