{"id":2000105746,"date":"2026-03-17T20:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000105746"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:54:59","slug":"president-kagame-meets-global-citizen-founder-hugh-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-meets-global-citizen-founder-hugh-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame meets Global Citizen founder Hugh Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Move Afrika, a pioneering music touring circuit by Global Citizen, aims to drive economic growth, job creation, and entrepreneurship across Africa through world-class entertainment events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Rwanda\u2019s Office of the President, their discussion highlighted the partnership’s positive impact on Rwanda’s creative economy, and the wider work being done across key sectors including health and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh Evans is in Rwanda for the \u2018Move Afrika\u2019 concert featuring American artist Doja Cat, which is expected to take place at BK Arena on the night of March 17, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doja Cat becomes the third artist to perform in the \u2018Move Afrika\u2019 series, following Kendrick Lamar, who performed in 2024, and John Legend, who performed in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 30-year-old artist has been in music for almost 15 years. She is well known for songs like “Say So,” “Kiss Me More” featuring SZA, “Streets,” and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After performing in Kigali, Doja Cat is expected to head to South Africa, where she will perform on March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its inception in 2023, Move Afrika has already created over 2,500 jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Kagame has met withGlobal Citizen founder, Hugh Evans ahead of Move Afrika concert at BK Arena. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hugh Evans and his delegation were hosted at Urugwiro Village on March 17, 2026. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Kagame hosted Hugh Evans, the founder and CEO of Global Citizen, an organization behind \u2018Move Afrika\u2019 concerts, ahead of the third edition headlined by Doja Cat at BK Arena on the night of March 17, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000105747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[151,69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000105746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-editors-choice","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000105747,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gn.jpeg","alt":"","caption":" Hugh Evans and his delegation were hosted at Urugwiro Village on March 17, 2026. ","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":2048,"height":1672,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gn.jpeg","width":150,"height":122},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gn.jpeg","width":300,"height":245},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gn.jpeg","width":768,"height":627},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gn.jpeg","width":1024,"height":836},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gn.jpeg","width":2048,"height":1672}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000105746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000105746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000105746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000105749,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000105746\/revisions\/2000105749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000105747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000105746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000105746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000105746"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000105746"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000105746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}