It goes to local authorities and even to members of Parliament so that individual citizens almost become people who want to sit and wait for their member of Parliament to come and solve the problem. Now that won't take you anywhere. And if you follow it, you will see that it feeds corruption in the country.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

One of the reasons why I say we all need to work together to save the Congo forest, because if we don't save the Congo forest, the Amazon forest and the southeast Asia forest, if those forests release the carbon they are trapping at the moment, much of what you will be doing in the North will be negated by the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.