This should be a lesson to all African leaders whose ideas are hardly known. We are in the digital age.
Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran has a blog that he (himself) updates. He uses 15 minutes every week on it (reading or posting). It is accessible at http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/
I remember some months ago when the Blog of the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (and former prime minister) caused controversy. This was mainly due to journalists who don’t know if the ideas on the Minister’s blog should be taken as views of his Ministry or not.
Also, the prosecutor launched an inquiry into whether the Minister breached the law when some hate comments passed several days on his blog. This was about Anti-Palestian comments posted by some visitors (readers) of the blog. Under Swedish law, such comments should be removed by the blog maintainer.
Let me hope that African leaders in general, and Rwanda, my country, in particular will in the near future set up blogs where they post regularly and let us “Baturage” post comments, suggestions and questions. That way, they will make sure that they have something interesting to blog about. And those who pass months without any post will have given a clear idea of how well they sleep at work.