“In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, ...” — Paul Kagame Quote

“In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.”

“The U.N. must be a good steward of the funds entrusted to it. Abuse and waste are therefore not a mere public relations problem. Institutional reform is not a one-off event, like applying a fresh coat of paint.”

“Some are short, others are tall, others are thin, others are stocky. But we are all human beings. Can we not live together and happily within one border?”

“The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.”

“Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.”