“There are enormous resources in this world, but inequitably distributed. How do we disrupt the current financial architecture as we have it, so that it includes significantly and visibly the interests of our continent?
In a few decades, the only place in this world that will have a growing middle class is Africa. So it is even in the interest of the rest of the world that has marginalized Africa to contribute to the wellbeing of our continent. Because the growth of Africa, based on this middle class, feeds into the growth of the rest of the world.
But Africa cannot wait to be handed this opportunity by anybody else, we, therefore, must be on the frontline, fighting for this right, for ourselves but also which contributes to the wellbeing of the rest of the world.” President Kagame | 59th Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank.