The power of borrowing

The sad accounts of most of the Rwandan primary school teachers who talked on BBC made for sad listening. The teary pleas made to Ali Yusufu Mugenzi, who hosts the Saturday BBC Kinyarwanda-Kirundi programme, ‘Imvo n’Imvano’, were enough to wring tears out of the most callous listener. Until one remembered Mugenzi’s penchant for souring any story coming out of Rwanda. He is known not to be beyond seeking out disgruntled voices and sprinkling them with a few accurate assessors of a situation to lend credence to his radio programmes. We’ve seen how he cuts elaborate, recorded explanations by our leaders into bits that are hardly coherent.