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Supporting government is not about just agreeing with everything they say and do. It means constantly holding them to the highest standards.

— Margaret Kenyatta

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The journey is long and we are nowhere near its end. The world needs more heads, hands and hearts devoted to doing it.

African leadership must include building partnerships not only within, but also between countries.

We must embrace ideas and innovation, learn from each other, apply local and sustainable solutions, so that we can continue to avert the risks our women, our youth, our marginalized, and our vulnerable face.

Covid–19 stole two years of our work. Our destiny seemed to be steering a difficult path.

Re-commit, with me, to the cause of equality between men and women. Re-commit, with me, to the cause of ending deaths in child birth. Re-commit, with me, to making sure that every disabled child can live as independent and productive a life as they are capable.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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