Paul Kagame Quotes

It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.

I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.

Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

Africans must stand up for themselves and that the strategies and tactics of the struggle should be determined by the African people themselves, and not by others.

Afrocentricity seeks to re-locate the African person as an agent in human history in an effort to eliminate the illusion of the fringes.

I believe in pan-Africanism. This means that in many things - the judiciary, sports, economics and trade - we want Africanism to be involved, which is basically more freedom for the people.

We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

Africa for the Africans.

Many people think Africans are incapable of running things, and even I wonder sometimes.

No one knows when the hour of Africa's Redemption cometh. It is in the wind. It is coming. One day, like a storm, it will be here. When that day comes all Africa will stand together

It’s in our interest to shape the world around us.

The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.

Our country has the potential not just to be the giant of Africa but a major economic giant in the world.

I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

I represent a great continent. People ask, Is there pressure on me? I don't feel pressure at all. It's an unbelievable challenge for me, but I feel like I carry the weight of my continent on my shoulders. I want to help the next generation in Africa.