Justin Fox, Columnist

Rwanda's President Thinks He's Indispensable

Maybe he is. That doesn't bode well for his people or the progress his country has made.

August 8, 2017 at 4:54 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

Dangerous thinking.
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This could have been the year that Rwandan President Paul Kagame rode off into the sunset to riches and acclaim.

Kagame has been his country's dominant political figure since leading the 1994 military rebellion that halted the genocide by the majority Hutus of his ethnic group, the Tutsis. He was chosen as president by the country's parliament and cabinet in 2000. Then, after a new constitution called for a directly elected president who could serve two seven-year terms, he ran and was elected easily in 2003 and 2010.