As I sat down to write to you this week, I threw my phone to one side, irritated that yet again it had refused to connect it me to someone I needed to speak to. I’m sure phones all over Kigali are bashed and bruised, victims of our frustration with ‘the network’. A new member of our team here, LILLIAN NAKAYIMA, discovers how mobile phones and their inability to do what they are designed to do, are causing headaches across the country. Check out page 3. While we offer no solutions, at least you can find comfort in the fact that you are not alone in your suffering! Also, on the subject of connectivity, our main story this week brings you a journalist being true to his profession – inexcusably nosy! Unafraid to ask awkward questions and stick his nose where it arguably does not belong, STEPHEN TUMUSIIME hit the streets to find who uses tuvugane phones and what they talk about. Why when so many have mobiles, are there queues to use these public phones? Tumusiime proves he has the curiosity, the uninhibited mind, the native cunning and an eagerness to communicate – the stuff of great journalism. Turn to page 6; he doesn’t disappoint! This weekend, I suggest you all switch off your phones and sit back to enjoy our magazine. Take care sundaytimes@newtimes.co.rw
