I'm sure there already plenty of highly qualified, highly educated Rwandan and African researchers who are already doing the work, and already have done the work.

So why not check that no other African has already doing the work you're intending to do already, and collaborate with them instead?

There are also plenty of highly qualified, highly educated, highly skilled African students/young people who could be interested in researching EA topics, and are far more knowledgeable about the "on the ground" context you want to write about. So why not invite them to lead the research and just supplement them?

Really don't see the added value / additionality of some random (Western) person doing some random research in Africa when there is already so much being done / so many other qualified people who are doing it / could be doing it?