Millions of Rwandans and other Kinyarwanda speakers have struggled to understand why changes were recently introduced in the language's orthography. The new instructions on how to write Kinyarwanda ...

Primary school students in a classroom in Eastern Province, Rwanda, 2012 (photo by Tim Williams). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click ...

We switch gears now for a story from Rwanda. You'll probably remember that in the mid-1990s, a horrific conflict between the country's two main ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, resulted in the ...

As we join the world in celebrating International Mother Language Day, efforts to sustain Ikinyarwanda deserve more than ceremonial recognition. Spoken by nearly all Rwandans, Ikinyarwanda is the ...

As Rwanda marks this year’s observance of International Mother Language Day, today, we are invited to reflect not only on language as a means of communication, but as the foundation of who we are.