Kagame urges Africa to unite to have bigger say

KENYA - President Kagame, yesterday, participated in an Eminent Persons discussion at the Pan-Africa Media Conference in Nairobi organised by the Nation Media Group to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Other panellists in the session moderated by John Sibi-Okumu were Prime Minister Raila Odinga of Kenya, former President of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa and Nobel Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai. On Pan Africanism, the President said that regional integration should be seen as part of the African-wide struggle to bring Africans together, to give the continent the relevance it deserves, and its people a stronger voice in the world. However, he pointed out that that Pan Africanism will only work in so far as we can make it work, if we remain divided and unaccountable to each other, then the continent will remain weak.