"Young people worldwide are demanding the same things that we talk about in the film, and these are universal concerns, but we don’t always take into account that those discussions are also happening in places like Rwanda or Burundi. I wondered, what would it be like to tell the story of these deliberations from the inside instead of the outside."
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how do we propose our take on these issues instead of being told what the take is, said Anisia Uzeyman (The Africa Report,18 March 2022)
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