Aminata Buganzi Ruhinda

areas of interest:
western indian ocean region
the politics of cultural hybridity
global and african history
the african diaspora
sustainable development
economic transformation
art, literature, and music

"History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government."

"A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice."

"Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited." ~ Robert Kennedy

« Qu'importe le succès momentané, soyez tranquille, rien de ce que vous écrivez n'est perdu, l'histoire est là qui recueille. » (Hugo à Schœlcher)