On at least one occasion, President Duma Boko has explained why he prefers to go on a podium and speak off the cuff, with no prepared script and no notes.
The gist of his thinking is that a written speech is limiting, stifling and stultifying.
And that it takes away some of the poetic license; my words not his.
He says he does not make speeches, rather he engages.
All of a sudden a small army of his ministers now say they too prefer to speak without written notes.
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