The office

The office

A popular British TV series focuses on the intricate inner politics and pettiness of a typical, western-world office. The office of the headmaster of Rugerero is interesting in many other ways. Total absence of any trace of any management work whatsoever... Nothing! Not even one file with a class list, not a desk with any document on it, not a pen, nothing on the walls. Any Zen, minimalist office in the world would look like Baroque or Rococo compared the Rugerero’s headmaster’s office.
1600 children will be climbing up the hills to go back to school on Tuesday morning. I hear the school is short of 12 teachers and that the District is desperately looking for teachers (you qualify as ‘teacher’ if you have graduated from secondary education). I feel nervous, anxious, panic-stricken, The headmaster is cool as a cucumber. Rwandan ‘No worries, mate’ is thriving...