People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

Education of course is a very empowering experience, so many people who went to school also managed to improve their quality of life much faster because they could get a job, they could get money, and with money you could buy things that you cannot buy if you don't have money.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for them and eventually as we compete, there are those of us, who have the capacity, who have the ability to be the controllers, to decide who accesses them, how much they access, and eventually there is a conflict. Those who feel marginalized, those who feel excluded, eventually react in an effort to get their own justice, and we have conflict.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.