A prize ceremony shows you a stage. A factory visit shows you the truth. During the week of the Africa's Business Heroes Grand Finale in Kigali, members of the ABH community — fellow entrepreneurs, partners and organisers from across Africa and beyond — came to walk DIKAM's production floor.

Diane Mukasahaha at a cutting table spread with marked fabric, explaining the process to visitors

Diane led the tour herself: the fabric store, the cutting tables spread with marked cloth, the sewing lines, and the finished goods on their way out. The questions were the ones we like best — about capacity, about training, about what it takes to build garment manufacturing in Rwanda.