As part of the Connected Africa season, the BBC's Adam Blenford travelled to Rwanda to find out how the country's government is taking the internet into rural areas - where even electricity is a luxury - and met hopeful students at a key science and technology college in the capital, Kigali.

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Photographed, produced and recorded by Adam Blenford. Publication date 22 September 2009.

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