“It is not enough to speak of human rights in the formal sense of freedom of speech, freedom from arrest and that sort of thing. We must also speak of freedom from hunger, freedom from disease, freedom from living under a leaking roof.”

Yoweri Museveni Uganda

“No one should think that what is happening today is a mere change of guard: it is a fundamental change in the politics of our country.”

Yoweri Museveni Uganda

“The sovereign power in the land must be the population, not the government. The government should not be the master, but the servant of the people.”

Yoweri Museveni Uganda

“Even the simplest forms of animal life, such as amoebas, hydras or earthworms, know their interests. … Why should Africans not know their interests and what is good for them?”

Yoweri Museveni Uganda

“I am not a servant of anybody. I am a freedom fighter; that is why I do what I do. … If anybody thinks you gave me a job, he is deceiving himself.”

Yoweri Museveni Uganda

“If yesterday I fought as an enemy, today you have become a friend and ally with the same national interest, loyalty, rights and duties as myself.”

Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe

“Africa should have one identity, one nationality, one people, one currency, one army.”

Muammar Gaddafi Libya

“The decisions taken by the conference will be applied in order and in freely accepted discipline. This is not defeatism, it is not capitulation, it is a question of national responsibility.”

Mathieu Kérékou Benin