A local pastor Jimmy Muyango from Rwanda For Jesus Church, Kicukiro District has published his debut book titled“The Path To Your Destiny”
Written in English for four years, the pastor tells the aspiring readers to stay focused no matter the challenges they have to meet in life.
At a colourful launching ceremony arranged with a mixture of music from one of the celebrated gospel artist Simon Kabera, Passy, worship team from Rwanda for Jesus, and upcoming cultural gospel troupe, pastor Muyango signed autographs including the one to someone only identified as Aimable who bought one copy at over Rwf 600,000.
“Many of the successful people in the world were more focused than others, it does not mean they did not meet challenges.Probably they meet more challenges than any of us but they never gave up,” Pastor Muyango said.
“In this book, I am reminding everyone that there are barriers to your destiny or achieve your goal no matter how hardworking or wise you might be any yet no one makes a choice which barrier and when to meet,” Muyango added.
“Nobody made a choice to be born an African, or a Rwandan, to be born a man or a woman, to be born on a certain day neither would you make a choice whether to meet barriers or hindrances while you are driving to your goal, therefore I talk about principles that you should have if you need to stay on track,”
Muyango said that writing a book was also a contribution to promote a reading culture in Rwanda which would help in finding the hidden wisdom in many books.
“You cannot read if you can write, reading culture in Rwanda cannot grow if there are no writers or if there is no reading writing culture, am glad that I have become among a few people that are contributing to this knowledge development course,” Muyango emphasized.
A reading culture can be defined as a learned practice of seeking knowledge, information or entertainment through the written words.
An estimation of over 500 copies sold in just four hours of launch while earning him close to Rwf 2million on-launch sales.
Pastor Charles Mugisha of New Life Bible Church, Kicukiro District who presided over the function reminded the invited guests and the Rwandans at large that the wisdom or knowledge one may need is found in a book.
“One person said, that if you want to hide wisdom or knowledge from an African, put it in the book, because they discovered that Africans don’t have a reading culture but the trend has changed now, Africans have started reading and writing and so is Rwanda where we have come to celebrate some of our first fruits of authors in the country,” Mugisha said.
Promoting Reading Culture
The culture of reading is not part of Rwandan tradition. It has been necessary that NGOs like edition BAKAME coming up with Rwandan story telling books for children accompanied with reading competitions.
However, the mission of the Ministry of Education is to transform Rwandan citizens into skilled human capital for socio- economic development of the country by ensuring equitable access to quality education focusing on combating illiteracy, critical thinking and positive values among others.
None of those above is expected to be achieved with no reading or writing culture of which the government has embarked on.
The ministry believes that achieving that mission is surely contributing to the overall goal of the Government to reduce poverty and improving the well-being of the Rwandan population.
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