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Rwanda’s free laptop project pays dividends, five years in

Lessons for Kenya? East African nation moves towards being a knowledge-based economy, beginning by providing laptops for its school children

Olive Uwineza is 12 and dreams of becoming president one day. She sits in a class of about 30 pupils, at a high-tech primary school in Kigali, Rwanda.

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