I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.

Moving container from Kigali to Mombasa used to take 22 days, now it takes 6 days.

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

When people accuse us of taking coltan from Congo, I don't understand what they mean. The quality of our own coltan here from Rwanda is much better. But still people from the UN come here, we show them our coltan mines, we show them the documents, then they go and say: Rwanda smuggles coltan.

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

Rwanda is rebuilding itself once again as one nation and that is the reason why we are making progress. Now many Rwandans are making their ends meet and others are able to do better than they have before.