St. Louis finds budding business partnership in Rwanda
ST. LOUIS – Mentioning Rwanda rewinds the mind to 1994 and one of the worst genocides in history. Many of the more than 800,000 people killed during the 100-day massacre are remembered inside the Genocide Memorial in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali.
30 years later, reconciling the atrocities that occurred—with a focus on unity and progress—has turned Kigali into one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies.
“Some of the things they were doing there were so advanced I couldn’t believe it,” founder and partner at St. Louis Nexus Group Rodney Boyd said.
Boyd first traveled to Rwanda 15 months ago. What he experienced laid the groundwork for a return trip in early January with a group of St. Louis business leaders.
“Everyone on the trip, everyone that went from our delegation, was blown away,” he said.
BioSTL Founding President and CEO Donn Rubin added, “The way the country itself deploys innovation is in some ways ahead of us.”
