Today was a very important holiday in Rwanda: The celebration of old and current heroes. In the morning, the community gathers to tell stories about those heroes. There are three different kinds: Inema, Inienza, and the last one I already forgot again. Damn it! Laura (classmate), Alice (my friend from the guesthouse) and I went to a local community meeting up the road. People sat and listened to a number of men telling stories about different heroes. Everything was in Kinyarwanda, but this is what I got about the colonizing story: The colonizers or Wazungu (many white people/ foreigners) came to the African continent and drew lines arbitrarily, creating nations where there had been tribes before. They named them Kenia, Uganda, Zambia, ... and went on to rule them directly or indirectly. The story showed one thing very clearly and nicely: Rwandans are very aware of the many negative things that colonization brought with it and questions the ridiculous way of distri...