American TV host Ellen DeGeneres (centre) with her partner Portia De Rossi and the chief executive of the Rwanda Development Board Clare Akamanzi in Kigali on May 29, after meeting President Paul Kagame. PHOTO | RWANDA PRESIDENCY
Popular American TV host Ellen DeGeneres’s visit to Rwanda could boost Kigalis’s efforts to market the country as a high-end tourism destination, as well as its gorilla conservation agenda.
The comedienne arrived in the country on May 27 alongside her partner Portia DeRossi, for a holiday and to oversee the initial stages of the construction of the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.
