Nobel Peace Laureate, Leymah Gbowee, says African leaders need to stop hiding behind the colonial past for their lack of care and their ineffectiveness to provide basic services for their people.
There is power in Africa uniting and applying African solutions to African problems. That is according to the President of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), Zingiswa Losi.
Children Rights Advocate and 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi has lambasted the rich nations in the world saying their discriminatory attitude towards poor nations was at the heart of the persistence of the problem, which is rife in Africa.
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