Editor,

I am still trying to grasp how Mwalimu’s Tanzania and Madiba’s South Africa could be in bed with the génocidaires of FDLR. The obscenity of this nightmarish reality is just too enormous for my mind to wrap itself around. Might the painful answer lie, perhaps, in the fact that the two countries under their current rulers have very little in common ideologically with their determined pan-African character that was so clear under their illustrious predecessors?

I don’t see term limits from a dogmatic angle; there is nothing sacred or otherwise about them. What should determine our choices—at the personal, family or national level, should be pragmatic self-interest? Does it work and has it worked so far for us? If "we” judge from our practical experience that it is, then let’s go for it.

Mwene Kalinda

Reaction to the letter, "Kudos to Mushikiwabo for candid talk” (The New Times, December 29)