Training for Model Citizenship: An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda

This thesis addresses how government in Rwanda plays out in practice and how it affects lived experiences of state power and citizenship. Two decades after the genocide, Rwanda has come to be associated both with security, development, and stability, on the one hand, and with state repression and coercion, on the other. In 2007, a nationwide programme was launched to teach all Rwandans about the politically dominant vision of the model Rwandan citizen -an ideal that is today pursued through remote trainings camps, local village trainings, and everyday forms of government.