The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.

The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism.

I congratulate the outgoing Nigeria President Mr Goodluck Jonathan for his grace in conceding defeat.

Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference.

You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.

You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it.

Sometimes people like to take risks.

Had the Luhyas united, my plans would have been impossible to fulfil .

It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.

If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.

I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

Knowledge gives shows us a direction education gives us power to walk.

What you do daily decides your destiny and (more importantly) your legacy.

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

No flower wants to be at home when it is raining outside!

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.