Rwanda rises with knowledge… and Sudan retreats ✍️ Human Rights Police Team – Mahmoud Gasm Al-Sayed
In the heart of the African continent, where destruction and despair held sway thirty years ago, Rwanda stands today as an oasis of hope and an eloquent lesson that nations are not built on rubble, but on minds.
The country which witnessed one of the most horrific genocides in history in 1994 AD, has transformed itself in a few years into an advanced African model in development, governance and education.
Rwanda understood very early that the renaissance began at school and in the laboratory, and not in speeches and slogans.
So he made education a national project that was not subject to political negotiations, and he realized that building people is more important than building towers and roads. It started with meanings before buildings.
*Education…the key to Rwandan renaissance*
The state led a comprehensive educational revolution, which began with qualifying teachers, modernizing curricula, linking them with the labor market, and then introducing technology at all levels of education.
The government launched partnership programs with international universities such as Carnegie Mellon and Oxford, until Kigali became a regional center of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.
This has also given women their place in the education and development process, and their participation rates in education and leadership have reached unprecedented levels on the continent.
It was not a luxury, but rather a vision that every educated mind is an investment in the future of the nation.
*From gunpowder to book*
Rwanda does not have great natural resources, but it has an iron will.
He reformulated his programs to instill the values of citizenship and tolerance, and launched the slogan “Rwanda learns to rise”, so that science became his ultimate weapon against ignorance and division.
Today, Rwanda is ranked among the fastest growing economies in Africa and is considered one of the cleanest and most stable countries.
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*When politics destroys the buildings of education*
On the other hand, Sudan has been a pioneer in African and Arab education since the beginning of the last century.
From the schools of Gordon, Wadi Sedna and Hantoub emerged minds who filled the Arab world with knowledge and creativity.
But when politics entered the classroom, the process was disrupted. Programs collapsed, institutions deteriorated, and planning failed, until education lost its focus.
The school went from a beacon for the nation to an arena of party quotas, respect for the teacher declined and the educational structure eroded, while talk of reform remained mere seasonal slogans without real will.
*The art schools that created the future*
Sudanese education was not only theoretical, but extended to areas of application and scientific research.
The Talha Agricultural School was a model in technical education, as it was a scientific and research center that connected the student to the land, the farm and the laboratory and contributed to the development of national agriculture.
But politics and neglect have destroyed this legacy. Technical schools were neglected, vocational education declined, and opportunities to link science to production were lost.
If these institutions were preserved and maintained properly, Sudan today would be one of the leading agricultural and industrial countries in Africa.
However, the demolition of applied education was essentially destroying the future of the country.
The lesson of Rwanda
The Rwandan experience is not a miracle, but rather practical proof that when political will is directed at the people, education works miracles.
But when education is hijacked for the benefit of narrow ideology or interests, the entire country heads toward decline and division.
It is time for Sudan to redefine education as a national project aimed at saving minds before infrastructure, advancing its scientific and artistic institutions, restoring the status of the teacher and returning the school to its educational and non-partisan mission.
Homelands are not built by speeches, but by a mind that knows, a hand that works and a heart that believes that knowledge is the path to salvation.
Rwanda did it…will Sudan do it?
God is the Giver of success
