The five-star hotels country manager refusing to retire at 77

Richard Kimenyi, the country manager for Hemingways Collection in Rwanda, during the interview on July 23, 2026 at the Hemingways Retreat Kigali. 

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Richard Kimenyi tried retirement. Then he tried consultancy. Neither felt suitable for him. And so, nine years ago, he stepped out of retirement. At 77, Kimenyi has no plans to leave the stage.

The stage, in his case, is the hotel business, where he has spent more than five decades and still prefers the demands of day-to-day management to sitting in a boardroom. He likens hoteliers to rock stars: “Good hoteliers are like rock stars,” he says.

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