Paul Kagame: Build Own Currency Upon Own Natural Resources

“So long as Europe and the United States hold power over our currency, they will continue to dictate the direction of our economies. Africa must build a unified currency—one grounded in our own natural wealth, not in the dollar or the euro.

Our continent is abundant in resources—gold, oil, diamonds—yet we measure their value through foreign currencies controlled outside our borders. As long as we do this, the economic remote control stays in Western hands. A single African currency backed by our own resources would return that power to us.”

— Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda

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