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World Shared Table Day
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Rwanda Edition
September 1, 2028
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Looking Back at 1800 Day
The British East India Company has taken Bengal after the Battle of Plassey and the wealth is draining out. The muslin weavers are being forced out of business. The Permanent Settlement locks land ownership into British-friendly landlord hands. The famine of 1770 killed a third of the population. The next famine is coming.
Regional/Cultural Day
Umunsi w'Amasomo
The first day of school. Children receive their uniforms and backpacks, and parents walk them to the school gate. The AHA: Rwanda switched its entire education system to English in 2008, making it the only country to switch its medium of instruction mid-stream. Teachers who had taught in French their entire careers had to learn English over a single summer. They did it.