Moving to Kigali? Visas, communities, housing, what to expect by nationality.
Eight practical things the regulars wish they'd known before their first Kisimenti visit. Parking, the supermarket rhythm, when the queues go long, which streets actually run east-west, what closes early on Sunday. The first-day briefing as the locals would give it.
Quietly, over five years, a small Nigerian-led fintech scene has settled into Kacyiru and Kimihurura. We mapped where they work, where they eat, why they came — and what they wish someone had told them in their first month.
Visa-free entry, English-speaking offices, fibre everywhere, and a Nigerian community in Kigali that grew from a few hundred to several thousand in five years. What the move actually involves — and the small recalibrations no one warns you about until you're here.
EAC nationals get the easiest path of any nationality moving to Rwanda: no visa, immediate right to work, banks that accept your home-country ID. What that actually unlocks — and the few things still worth knowing about pace, neighbourhoods, and what changes after week three.