{"id":13025,"date":"2018-07-07T15:59:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=13025"},"modified":"2018-07-09T12:47:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:47:05","slug":"president-kagame-delivers-lecture-to-alu-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=13025","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame delivers lecture to ALU graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kigali, 7 July 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame today delivered a lecture to 38 graduating students of the African Leadership University, pioneers of the MBA program of the Rwanda based University, before delivering a Keynote address at the graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on determination during the lecture, President Kagame narrated a tale of Rwanda\u2019s struggle where a family lost three sons in the struggle and when news came, the father announced to his son that his brothers had died before sending his last son to the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis commitment, is something you cannot teach anyone.\u00a0You have leaders who are attached to the cause of delivering and others who will choose to say as long as am ok, everyone will be ok. That is what makes a difference in leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharing his leadership experience with the graduates, President Kagame said when they set out initially during the liberation, few had adequate management experience but were forced to learn quickly on the job and using experiences and failures as lesson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lesson here was that there will always be challenges along the way but what matters\u00a0is to confront them head on in order to make progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his Keynote address at the graduation, president Kagame said the positive developments on the African continent provided immense scope for graduates with entrepreneurial talent and skills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have such a major stake and we hope that you will get involved at all levels and in all sectors to drive Africa\u2019s transformation agenda,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame commended the African University of Leadership for proving that it is possible for the continent to provide world-class education that is relevant globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 7 July 2018 President Kagame today delivered a lecture to 38 graduating students of the African Leadership University, pioneers of the MBA program of the Rwanda based University, before delivering a Keynote address at the graduation ceremony. Speaking on determination during the lecture, President Kagame narrated a tale of Rwanda\u2019s struggle where a family lost three sons in the struggle and when news came, the father announced to his son that his brothers had died before sending his last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13028,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions\/13028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}