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Rwanda

by Denis Seguin

photography by Denis Seguin

Published in the April 2006 issue.  » BUY ISSUE     

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The simplest solution, of course, would be to change the side of the road that people drive on. Canada did, after all. But Sagahutu doesn’t think that will happen here. “People in Rwanda are used to cars driving on the right side of the road,” he says. “Besides, all the government vehicles are left-hand drive.”

Seguin is a Toronto-based journalist currently working on a documentary about the first Hollywood film studio run outside Hollywood.

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Alexandre: It's quite amazing fact. I discovered this myself when i visited Kigali last summer. It was my first returning to my motherland I left in 1990 for Europe. Back then, 100% cars were left wheel ed. Frankly, I did not understand much in cars even though I could occasionally drive. When I visited last summer, I saw a country that rejected almost everything that defined my childhood. But, It's quite remarkable that Rwandan Government has banned the right wheeled vehicles. June 11, 2008 16:59 EST

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