“Africa is not a monolith. We need to leave behind us, far behind us, the sense of victimhood. We need to seize the moment, because we really have everything that should do us proud, whether it is natural resources or human capital. This requires leadership, it requires governance, it requires accountability, it requires assessing and challenging ourselves and holding ourselves accountable in case you expected something out of your effort and it is not there, we should be able to say, why?
The voice we are looking for must be really a united voice. It is a voice about what happens to these 1.4 billion people and things that they have a say in. They can determine for themselves where they are coming from, what they need to do and where they are going, without being dictated to.” President Kagame | Africa CEO Forum 2024.