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Flying the flag in the Land of a Thousand Hills: A talk by William Gelling (OT)
Cawthorne Lecture Theatre, Tonbridge
Tuesday 11 Dec 2018
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Event Details
William Gelling has just returned to the UK after four years as the UK’s High Commissioner to Rwanda and Burundi, representing the UK in a country scarred by the 1994 genocide which now has one of the world’s fastest economic growth rates, and a President with a controversial approach to managing politics and society. Before that William Gelling was William Hague’s Private Secretary and had postings in Iraq, Pakistan and India. He will discuss how Rwanda has pulled itself out of tragedy to economic success, in contrast with Burundi, the world’s poorest country, only 200 miles away, and tell us about what life is like flying the flag for the UK in Africa.