That seems like a strange title for one of my blog posts, especially for a tech company that doesn't have any business in Africa. Let me explain.

As we recently announced in our online newsletter, we're sponsoring Adam Mazo, filmmaker of "Reconciliations Reach," a film about Rwandans struggle with reconciliation a generation after genocide. Tech Superpowers is providing Adam and his team with essential video editing gear for his documentary once he arrives back in the states after a month-long trip to Rwanda.

Read our announcement about the collaboration.

Adam's recently posted a new blog post on the film's website with updates from his journey:

"Charles Mugabe should not be alive. He was one of 12 survivors of the massacre of 6,000 innocents hiding in a church in Nyamata, Rwanda during the Rwandan genocide. Now he spends his summer vacations guiding visitors through the church turned memorial where he watched his twin brother die."

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I've read the latest post and it's amazing stuff. Charles had to endure things that our nightmares are made of. We can look at him as someone who has been without so much - food, stability, money, peace - all things that we take for granted. Yet he has something that we don't: he understands the power of reconciliation better than most of us in our sheltered world do.

How much conflict do we have in our lives? A lot, just not in the same outward violent and personal way that Rwanda has experienced it. But our society and cultures are fraught with conflict. How much do we put in an effort to make it better? Well, that's up to you, but read Adam's blog, and you might get a little push.

Follow the film's Facebook page for more updates.