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Why did you choose Rawanda over South Africa/Nigeria/Morocco which I would think would be easier African countries to work in

• nicpottier 13y ago
  I can't say that we evaluated every country before choosing Rwanda, to be perfectly honest we didn't look at that many, we just decided that Rwanda was 'good enough' and would probably work so we went for it. The three countries you list are very very different from Rwanda and from each other, so it is hard to comment on that. In many ways South Africa has more in common with California than it does with Rwanda.
  • mayank 13y ago
    I'd be curious to hear more about this decision. I note that it lies somewhere approximately in between the extremes of Kenya/Nigeria/SA on one end and Central African Republic on the other.
    • nicpottier 13y ago
      As I said we didn't do a super lengthy weighting of countries, you could drive yourself crazy doing that. Rather we saw it was a place where we could move the needle, Kigali is a safe, beautiful and pleasant city to live in and we thought we had a chance of not going totally broke. We didn't spend much time at all weighing against other countries, just decided this seemed like a place that could use more experienced folks and would work out.