Kigali’s quiet nights and beautiful women

Many travellers will document the beauty of Rwanda for its scenic hills but a few will tell you about the quiet nightlife that has led a few ladies and lads to cross over to Uganda to enjoy a louder one.
A friend, who is friends with one of the managers at the Rwandair, shares that the airline’s Friday flights to Entebbe are heavily booked. Her explanation is that Rwandans partly travel to enjoy Kampala’s nightlife. Spending a weekend next door is particularly a worthwhile experience.

Cold beer tastes better with mchomo in loud walls. The bus companies must be cashing on on youth who do not mind a few hours into Mbarara and at times all the way to Kampala to drink, dance and enjoy what is on offer in the cities known for their musical excesses.
You will enjoy Kigali only when you like it slow. By nightfall on any day most of the locals will be in indoors. Peace and quiet largely define Kigali save for a few hangouts that can turn the knob only a bit louder.

Around and about
Otherwise you might want to look out for some big social events on the calendars. For a few days we had to literary hunt for ‘happening’ joints till we attended the Kigali Fashion Night, and thanks to Santa Anzo who was also showcasing some of her beautiful creative outfits.
This was the perfect opportunity to mix and mingle with a few socialites and most of all appreciate beauties of Rwanda who flaunted cool attires and bodies. Indeed this is one country gifted with beauty in a 360 degree offering. Anyway, the creative industry in Rwanda’s capital is on the rise as was evidenced by the catwalk queens.

Fashion designers, young ladies and gents, exhibit ingenuity. The deejay was accommodative and played a number of popular songs by Jose Chameleone, Eddy Kenzo among other local music stars.
But nightlife was not all there was in Kigali. There was the cleanliness, organised transport network that includes boda boda riders with helmets and disciplined enough not to let passengers board unless they agree to put on their crash headgears.

Roads
The roads in Kigali are neat that one would wonder if there were worked tasked to mop them every morning. Standing side by side of the road are cropping structure and vegetation of well-maintained lawns and water fountains. Remember this is a nation that was only in disarray in 1994 owing to the tragic genocide. Most locals are making peace with the past and have decided to enjoy the fruits that the present and the future have to offer.
And their efforts, thanks to the guidance of the government under President Paul Kagame, have fruited into enviable development.