Rwanda Education Board (REB) has launched an e-learning YouTube channel to facilitate students to continue their studies at home amidst ongoing uncertainty on when the students will go back to school.

There is nothing glamorous about being a YouTuber in Rwanda, says John Williams Ntwali, whose channel Pax TV is a year old. The pay is poor, the threats frequent and the risk of prison all too real.

When American YouTube star IShowSpeed arrived in Rwanda on the night of January 9, and launched his one-day tour the following day, January 10, excitement spread across the country as streets came ...