The Head of State said this during a meeting with African Union Youth Corps. The meeting brought together 90 young professionals from 45 AU member states including 15 Rwandan youth. The group was in Rwanda for a two-week training on volunteerism, according to the Office of the President.<\/p>\n
President Kagame reminded the youth to focus on similarities than differences between themselves and be mindful to seize opportunities and fight away challenges. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou find that those of you from different parts of the continent are going to discover more similarities than differences between you. For those differences there are also positives; being different is not negative. The most important thing is for you as leaders of today and tomorrow to be mindful of the fact that you need to seize opportunities and push back on challenges so that they don\u2019t stand in your way.\u201d Kagame says<\/p>\n
Taking from the country\u2019s tragic past, Kagame told that it had provided useful lessons to the nation at large. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are like a laboratory; everything has been tested here. But this past also comes with a silver lining in that what we drew from our past has gone a long way to make us better people than we were in history.\u201d He said<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t feel that there is anything special we have done as Rwanda. If we managed to overcome our challenges ourselves then anyone else in the world can. As young people you should never surrender to problems.\u201d He added. <\/p>\n
Kagame noted that there were problems specific to different parts of the continent but urged the youth to work and stand together so to be stronger in tackling those challenges. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the African Union idea and should be the ideal that leads & drives you as young Africans.\u201d Kagame said.<\/p>\n
President also noted that Africa had everything it needed and urged the youth to be dynamic, use its own resources and think differently than how others did. <\/p>\n
\u201cGod gave us everything to use; a rich continent and brains to produce more but why do we as a continent keep going back and ask God to help us? Africa needs the youth to think and do things differently and better than we did. Stop making Africa look like a cursed continent. God gave us more than what he gave others. Let us be proud and use these resources.\u201d He said<\/p>\n
\u201cAs young people you don\u2019t have as many limitations as you perceive. You have the potential in you to be anything you want. You can contribute to make your country and continent what it deserves to be.\u201d He says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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