{"id":4600,"date":"2016-01-22T13:59:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2017-07-14T15:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:41:37","slug":"africa-s-challenges-should-make-us-think-harder-and-smarter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=4600","title":{"rendered":"We should concentrate on what we can do between and among ourselves in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4599\" src=\"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&amp;web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WEF2016-Day-two.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WEF2016-Day-two.jpg 780w, https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WEF2016-Day-two-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WEF2016-Day-two-768x245.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Davos, 21 January 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the second day of the Davos World Economic Forum, President Kagame joined Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Hans Vestberg, the chief executive officer of Ericsson for a discussion on Africa\u2019s Next Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame emphasized to the audience that skills to put energy in place are already available in Africa;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat is needed is to examine why we Africans are not moving as fast as we should be. There is a silver lining around Africa&#8217;s challenges. They make us, in Rwanda and Africa, think harder and smarter. Challenges remind us there are things we should be doing that are within our means. We know if we traded amongst ourselves we would have a higher GDP growth. These are things we don\u2019t have to wait for. We can easily compensate what we are losing from outside by concentrating on what we can do between and among ourselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBefore people worry about technology replacing jobs, why don\u2019t we concentrate on using it for the right reason: productivity? In Africa we have a deficit of technology for productivity, how do we start worrying about a problem before solving another?\u201d<\/em> President Kagame added<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister Hailemariam added that; <em>\u201cAfrica is not a doomed continent, it is a rising continent with challenges we can address together.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame ended the day with Rwanda Night, a cultural evening hosted by Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s World Economic Forum theme is \u2018Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davos, 21 January 2016 On the second day of the Davos World Economic Forum, President Kagame joined Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Hans Vestberg, the chief executive officer of Ericsson for a discussion on Africa\u2019s Next Challenge. President Kagame emphasized to the audience that skills to put energy in place are already available in Africa; \u201cWhat is needed is to examine why we Africans are not moving as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4600","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\/4600","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5897,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/5897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}