Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

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

My purpose is to develop a country, to empower its population. It's from that same population that will emerge the man or woman who will succeed me. And they will be chosen based on the consensus that they have the capacity to lead the country.