Louise Mushikiwabo

"Anti-French sentiment, increasingly visible in Africa, is a sign of the times."

"Last month Rwanda Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Louise Mushikiwabo spoke at the Wilson Center on a wide-ranging set of issues, from the country’s development successes to the prominent role women have played in post-genocide society."

"Ladies and gentlemen, let’s continue to feel empowered to become active participants in the political and economic transformation of our countries in particular, and the continent in general."

"Let me again put it this way: I don’t know anybody who betrays a country that gets rewarded,"

"I think that sentiment of ambition and moving forward has to do with the thirst to live to the fullest."

"As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal."

"Rwanda is in the unique position of having temporary stewardship of arguably both the most influential English and French speaking organization in the world."

"Use our intelligence to manage that of artificial intelligence- President Kagame."

"Rwanda Has Had to Make Extremely Difficult Choices."

"she said Choices were made because there was no alternative and because the country had to move on and move forward… We were basically a broken nation."

"Unfortunately most westerners form their opinions of Africa based on the reporting and news in their own countries"

"I think more and more Africa is waking up the fact that you can only be limited by your ideas not by the size of your country or by the level of."

"When you choose to be a dog, you die like a dog."

"When we say that life is full of surprises, it is real."

"Our choice is not to have politicians fight – our choice is to keep going."

"The French language has no complex when compared to English, But the world today is such that it is beneficial to those who speak French to speak other languages, We go much further with more languages, We are more fortunate in employment and training with more languages."

"English is today the language of Silicon Valley, of technology, of research, of social networks."

"Human rights are not reserved for some countries and not for others. These are aspirations that everyone has. There are always improvements to be made in rights and freedoms."

"Rebuilding Rwanda One Policy at a Time."

"As we all know, implementing good governance principles is not simply about designing good institutional and policy reforms for our systems, but more importantly the capacity to assess and evaluate our performance for continuous improvement."

"The most important thing for us is that this region can find peace."

"create, innovate and do business in French."