Nyabugogo - From a Swamp to a Bustling Business Centre
AllAfrica.com - 7 hours ago
We may be tempted to think that Nyabugogo, an area known to for its
endless human and traffic jam, and a home to both small and big
businesses was always like that. Nyabugogo, currently in Kimisagara
sector, Nyarugenge district, which hosts the country's biggest taxi
park, was a few decades ago home to crocodiles and other aquatic
animals that used to enjoy the marshland and its friendly natural
flora.
It derived its name from Nyabugogo, a river which serves as a natural
boundary between Kimisagara and Gatsata sectors from Nyarugenge and
Gasabo district.
Ibrahim Mbarushimana, a.k.a Braza, 64, has lived around Nyabugogo
since childhood and has seen it grow from a swamp into one of Rwanda's
most economically strategic areas.
He says: "The main taxi park was originally a wetland until inmates
from the Kigali Central Prison, commonly known as 1930, (a name that
refers to its date of completion), decided to make good use of it."
Braza says the inmates turned the swamp into a brick-laying centre
hence earning the name Ku Mafuru (Brick oven land). Because of the
booming brick activities, Nyabugogo got its first road with only a
handful of cars owned by whites.
"There were very few cars that one could even tell whose car was
passing by even without seeing it," said Braza.
The Nyabugogo modern butchery then followed in the 1960s. He says it
was meant to provide meat to the white men.
Braza, however, explains that even with these few developments, the
place was not yet safe especially at night as hyenas were always on
the lookout for a passer-by to have for 'breakfast'.
"It was always advisable to walk during the day," Braza says.
According to Braza, the cross-border trade was started to grow in
1970, with trucks transporting both goods and passengers. He says
plenty of mats and other crafts were made from the papyrus in
Nyabugogo and transported to Uganda.
Petrorwanda now SP opposite Nyabugogo Taxi Park was allegedly the
first petrol station and was meant to cater for the vehicles.
When he looks back to the old days, Braza is surprised that the quiet
place has turned into one of the nosiest places in the country.
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