Editor,

While I agree that Rwanda is certainly and undoubtedly on the right path toward sustainable development that we are all dreaming of, I don’t think we rush to call the road to development "complete”. That is clearly inaccurate and unfair.

For example, consider the following questions: How evenly is this economic growth distributed? What about the bigger number of the population that relies on subsistent farming to survive? Are they benefiting? What about the many of children who are malnourished.

If Rwanda’s development is complete, then why are those children still hungry? What about the masses of unemployed youth who live in both urban and rural areas? Are they benefiting? Will associations/cooperatives really solve the problem? What role did such organisations play in the development of the economy of developed nations? 

James, KigaliRwanda

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Dear James, yours is a serious outburst, nonetheless, you concur that it is a journey. Nobody stated that we have arrived. Far from that, many Rwandans think the journey is yet to begin. That’s the fact.

The difference between the real approach and yours is that we are ready to undertake the journey, we understand the challenges, it is "us” that will take that journey. We extend an invitation to you to join us and find answers to malnourished children, discover innovative ways of how to address unemployment.etc.

In any case, it is our journey to undertake and here we are with our boots and belts ready to go.

Maria Mukunzi, KigaliRwanda

Reactions to Stephen Mugisha’s commentary, "Rwanda Inc: a must read for everyone with Africa at heart”, (The New Times, July 2)