{"id":35466,"date":"2017-07-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-gives-us-the-pride-to-be-africans-says\/"},"modified":"2017-07-23T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T14:02:39","slug":"rwanda-gives-us-the-pride-to-be-africans-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-gives-us-the-pride-to-be-africans-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda gives us the pride to be Africans, says Akon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The American-born Senegalese singer Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, has said that Rwanda gives Africans reason to be sons and daughters of the continent.<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old singer-cum-businessman made the remark while delivering a speech during the Youth Conneckt 2017 Summit that took place in Kigali, Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cCountries like Rwanda, give us the pride to say we are African, I am not saying just because am in Rwanda, even in other places I usually say the same. The youth have to be the foundation for the transformation of Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akon explained that he finds everything in Rwanda to be organized, women are empowered and  play a big role in the life of the nation.  Youth who are abroad should play a role in the development of Africa\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akon noted that women throughout the continent should be empowered so that they can play a role in the development of the world in general. <\/p>\n<p>Akon last came to Rwanda in July 2015, to discuss some energy development programs with the government of Rwanda through RDB and the Ministry of Infrastructure.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21263 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jy.jpg\" alt=\"Reknown singer, Akon, speaking at the YouthConnekt Africa Summit\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The American-born Senegalese singer Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, has said that Rwanda gives Africans reason to be sons and daughters of the continent. } The 44-year-old singer-cum-businessman made the remark while delivering a speech during the Youth Conneckt 2017 Summit that took place in Kigali, Rwanda. \u201cCountries like Rwanda, give us the pride to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35466","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35466"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35466"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}