"... I should like to pay tribute to the pioneering work carried out by our good friend, Hernando de Soto, and the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD). […] Our resolve, and the aspirations of all those who are struggling to convert the assets they hold into valuable properties, must not be left in doubt."

Benjamin William Mkapa
At a property formalization awareness presentation
Dar es Salaam, 8 September 2003