{"id":23995,"date":"2016-03-18T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T09:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-remembers-william-shakespeare\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T09:44:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T09:44:52","slug":"rwanda-remembers-william-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-remembers-william-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda remembers  William Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{William Shakespeare is an English playwright  and poet considered as the father  of play writers and poets in the English world. } <\/p>\n<p>Even though he died  400 years ago, he lives through his works\u2014 poems and plays; which are still popular across the World. These include the popular Romeo and Juliet.<\/p>\n<p>The British Council has organized an event to commemorate  Williams Shakespeare dubbed  \u2018Shakespeare Lives in 2016\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Council has selected 14 students from the University of Rwanda who are getting trained on writing poems based on Shakespeare\u2019s inspiration. The poems will be recited on 19th March  2016 during the event of commemorating Shakespeare to be held at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9a Grieder, a poet who has been working closely with 14 trained students has told IGIHE that through Shakespeare\u2019s inspiration, they prepared poems revolving around themes of love, jealousy, justice and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have realized that Rwandan youth are talented. These 14 students have been undergoing training helping them to think and deeply express human life through artistic expression based on the inspiration of Shakespeare,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11025 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/william_shakes.jpg\" alt=\"William Shakespeare is an English playwright  and poet considered as the father  of play writers and poets in the English world\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{William Shakespeare is an English playwright and poet considered as the father of play writers and poets in the English world. } Even though he died 400 years ago, he lives through his works\u2014 poems and plays; which are still popular across the World. These include the popular Romeo and Juliet. The British Council has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23995","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=23995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23995"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23995"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}