I Grew Up In A Refugee Camp

In Rwanda, We Have A Society That Has Experienced A Very Serious Rupture And You Can't Expect All Of A Sudden That Things Will Be Perfect. Even So: You Cannot Find Any More Areas Where Any Segment Of The Population Would Be Afraid To Go, Like We Used To Have Before. But There Is Always A Lot More To Do.

Aid Makes Itself Superfluous If It Is Working Well. Good Aid Takes Care To Provide Functioning Structures And Good Training That Enables The Recipient Country To Later Get By Without Foreign Aid. Otherwise, It Is Bad Aid.

The Efficiency Of A President At The Beginning Of His Term Depends On Their Capacity To Get Everything Under Control. That Was My Case. But Once The Institutions Have Been Put In Place, And The Responsibilities Delegated, The Leader Becomes A Reference, A Referee, A Symbol And Unifying Figure For The Nation. The Issue Is How And When To Recognize The Moment When Staying In Power Becomes Counterproductive.

Listen More To The One Who Criticizes You And Less To The One Who Praises You. Learn From Them And Do Something About It.

It Is Better For A Country To Have A Strong Leader, This Applies To The United States As Well As To Rwanda.