This Sunday seemed a special day right from its sunrise as a number of people realized it was the birthday of the president of Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame.
Now 54 year old, President Kagame was born October 23, 1957 in Rwanda’s Southern Province.
Several messages on internet channels like Twitter have been extended by different member of public wishing him a happy birthday.
Some of the members of public congratulated him while adding that he has been a role model for them where also president responded thanking them.
They used Kinayrwanda, English and Swahili languages.
According to www.paulkagame.com Kagame was born in October 1957 in Rwanda’s Southern Province.
His family fled pre-independence ethnic persecution and violence in 1960, crossing into Uganda where Kagame spent thirty years as a refugee.
Determined to resist oppressive regimes, as a young man, Kagame joined Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and his group of guerrilla war to free Uganda from dictatorship.
In 1990, Kagame returned to Rwanda to lead the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) four-year struggle to liberate the country from the autocratic and divisive order established since independence.
Led by Kagame, the Rwanda Patriotic Army defeated the genocidal government in July 1994 and the RPF subsequently set Rwanda on its current course towards reconciliation, nation building and socioeconomic development.
Kagame was appointed Vice-President and Minister for Defence in the Government of National Unity on 19 July 1994, and four years later was elected Chairman of the RPF, a partner in the Government of National Unity.
On 22 April 2000 Paul Kagame took the Oath of Office as President of the Republic of Rwanda after being elected by the Transitional National Assembly.
Kagame has received recognition for his leadership in peace building and reconciliation, development, good governance, promotion of human rights and women’s empowerment, and advancement of education and ICT, and is widely sought after to address regional and international audiences on a range of issues including African development, leadership, and the potential of ICT as a dynamic industry as well as an enabler for Africa’s socioeconomic transformation.
President Kagame currently serves as co-chair along with Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero of Spain, of the UNSG’s Advisory Group on MDGs and as co-chair along with Carlos Slim of the ITU’s Broadband Commission.
He is married to Jeannette Nyiramongi and they have four children. He is a keen tennis player and football fan.
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