Kinyarwanda-first is product work, not a translation pass

A generic church or media template assumes English labels, a homepage hero, and a donate button. That is not how BOHOKA is used.

People come back for today’s teaching and today’s audio. Navigation has to say that in Kinyarwanda. Accounts, live sessions and giving sit in the same product so the audience is not sent to three other tools.

We treat language as structure. Information architecture, labels, empty states and notifications are written for the audience first. English can exist. It cannot be the skeleton.

The same rule shows up in other LIGHTMGROUP work. Autisme Rwanda has to make sense to a parent under stress. PAM Rwanda has to make sense to members across district networks. If the first screen is written for a pitch deck, the product will be abandoned.

If your audience lives in Kinyarwanda, or in mixed English and Kinyarwanda, say so at the start of the estimate. It changes the interface, the content plan and the testing. It should not be a plugin enabled on Friday.