1997 AKES Letter
This letter was in response to interviews we had in Nairobi and Kampala in 1997, acknowledging our interest in working for AKES,T in Dar es Salaam.
History of a Failure
The development of civil society can also help meet the rising challenge of cultural diversity. As communities become more pluralistic in fact, they must also become more pluralistic in spirit. A vibrant civil society can give diverse constituencies effective ways to express and preserve their distinct identities, even as they interact with new neighbours.
—Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, May 15, 2006
The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
—Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting