When young French and Africans discover Rwanda. When we step outside the beaten and dark paths of the news, there are still reasons to hope.

This is the message that the French-African Foundation has been transmitting for five years. A visit full of symbols, to a country hit by a genocide which has considerably deteriorated the Franco-African relationship. But a visit likely to deceive all those who think that the links between Paris and the black continent are definitively broken. Far from the palaver where excess pessimism competes with the most blissful optimism, it is appropriate to remain realistic...