"Refuse to be a Servant of the West" -Paul Kagame

Shyaka Kanuma at the East African reports on an interview with Paul Kagame,regarding Trading Blocs he asserts:

...If we have big regional blocs, then you will have a situation where more businesses from rich countries come looking for opportunities — and more direct investment means less reason to go looking for foreign aid.

“These rich countries still exercise control over us; all these human rights and media rights organisations and so on, their sole objective is to impose Western ideals and values on everyone; anyone who refuses to go along is blacklisted.
“If you reject even some of their suggestions or recommendations, you pay for it. It doesn’t matter either whether the suggestions aren’t practical for us or don’t fit our situation...[continue reading]