At 28, Paul Kagame helped topple the Idi Amin government of Uganda . At 36, he overthrew the government of Rwanda. At 39 he ousted the government of
At 28, Paul Kagame helped topple the Idi Amin government of Uganda . At 36, he overthrew the government of Rwanda. At 39 he ousted the government of Democratic Republic of Congo (then called Zaire). It is hard to think of another leader who has won so many wars, against such repulsive enemies, on such a tight budget.
The boy whose first memories included watching his village burn, and who went to school in a refugee camp, grew up to stop a genocide. As a rebel, he said he had no political ambitions. He has now ruled Rwanda for 19 years, during which the country has been transformed from a blood-spattered wreck to an orderly society with robust economic growth, falling poverty and declining inequality.
Many Africans consider him a leadership model worth emulating.
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