The Mission
In the eighteenth century, the tea house would be a forum for intellectual encounters. They would read books and circulate magazines, talk about ideas, discoveries, and science while they are drinking their tea. In the same idea of a tea house, this magazine is a space where Rwandan artists and writers gather to archive our Blackness, our folklore, our comedy, our chaos, our prayers, and all our sensibilities through language.
This online magazine serves primarily as an archival space, and we hope to expand it in the near future into a research studio as well.
Founded in 2020 by Alain Jules Hirwa, the magazine lapsed into inactivity in 2021 but was revived in 2026.
Motto
Tea House – Archiving Contemporary Rwandan Literature and Arts