Internet information service of Memos e. V.
Print version on Sunday, 10. May 2026, from: https://memos.ngo/projects/rwanda-2024/25

Projects | Rwanda (2024/25)

More And More About Richard Kandt – Kigali, Gisenyi, Shangi, Nyungwe, Nyanza

NAR's Felix Uriho face to face with Richard Kandt’s larger than life statue in front of the Kandt-House-Museum in Kigali (© Valery Scheuerpflug)
NAR's Felix Uriho face to face with Richard Kandt’s larger than life statue in front of the Kandt-House-Museum in Kigali (© Valery Scheuerpflug)

Together with our partner organisation Never Again Rwanda we travelled through western Rwanda in the footsteps of the Africa explorer and colonial official Richard Kandt (17 December 1867 – 29 April 1918). The project was made possible by the German-African Youth Office and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation. 

A team of experts for non-formal education in the fields of remembrance culture, memorial education and peace building took part in the study trip. Starting from the Kandt House Museum in the Rwandan capital, the group travelled via Gisenyi along Lake Kivu to Kibuye and Shangi. Kandt had operated a research station there before being appointed Imperial Resident in 1907. From then on, he was based in Kigali on the western periphery of German East Africa, the German colony that existed from 1885 to 1918. 

The aim of the project was to develop methods and concepts that increase the potential of future international youth encounters and strengthen their impact on development policy.