By Wakibi Geoffrey
This year, Osaka, Japan, hosted the World Expo under the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” and Rwanda was so proud to participate. Scheduled for 13 April to 13 October 2025, the Expo brought together nations to celebrate their common future, highlighting sub-themes of saving, empowering, and connecting their lives.
This is the second participation in the World Expo following the country’s first participation in 2020 in Dubai where many local businesses found clients and investors while local artisans gained market access not just in the UAE but also across Asia.
For the Expo Osaka, Rwanda had bigger dreams come true. Rwanda stood among global innovators, focusing on people-centered actions. Rwanda’s pavilion focused on recent advancements in fields like health and space technology, artisanship with gender equality as a cross cutting. Rwanda’s pavilion also commemorate significant moments for our nation, such as Kwibohora 31 and Kwibuka 31, the commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi.