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When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one. — Mo Ibrahim

The mobile industry changed Africa. — Mo Ibrahim

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. — Mo Ibrahim

Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa. — Mo Ibrahim

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right. — Mo Ibrahim

In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. — Mo Ibrahim

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society. — Mo Ibrahim

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it. — Mo Ibrahim

There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. — Mo Ibrahim

Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius. — Mo Ibrahim

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa. — Mo Ibrahim

I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people. — Mo Ibrahim

Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society. — Mo Ibrahim

Experience counts in government even more than in business. — Mo Ibrahim

People never confess to failure. They should. — Mo Ibrahim

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread. — Mo Ibrahim

We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency. — Mo Ibrahim

To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa. — Mo Ibrahim

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward. — Mo Ibrahim

While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence. — Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum. — Mo Ibrahim

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen. — Mo Ibrahim

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it. — Mo Ibrahim

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein. — Mo Ibrahim

I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office. — Mo Ibrahim

Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population. — Mo Ibrahim

Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results. — Mo Ibrahim

It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do. — Mo Ibrahim

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture. — Mo Ibrahim

Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans. — Mo Ibrahim

The brain drain from Africa has been reversed. — Mo Ibrahim

I come from a typical family. — Mo Ibrahim

Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery. — Mo Ibrahim

The way forward for Africa is investment. — Mo Ibrahim

We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime. — Mo Ibrahim

I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really. — Mo Ibrahim

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man. — Mo Ibrahim

From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight. — Mo Ibrahim

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news. — Mo Ibrahim

Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa. — Mo Ibrahim

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen. — Mo Ibrahim

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. — Mo Ibrahim

Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view. — Mo Ibrahim

We measure everything - why not governance? — Mo Ibrahim

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim

Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries. — Mo Ibrahim

The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging. — Mo Ibrahim

I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites. — Mo Ibrahim

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored. — Mo Ibrahim

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are. — Mo Ibrahim

Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing — Mo Ibrahim

You get over your first love by falling in love with something new. — Mo Ibrahim

More people smile at me now I'm richer. — Mo Ibrahim

Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable. — Mo Ibrahim

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. — Mo Ibrahim

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything. — Mo Ibrahim

Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world. — Mo Ibrahim

Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they? — Mo Ibrahim

The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty. — Mo Ibrahim

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem. — Mo Ibrahim

Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations. — Mo Ibrahim

In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line. — Mo Ibrahim

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail. — Mo Ibrahim

The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration. — Mo Ibrahim

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant. — Mo Ibrahim

Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that. — Mo Ibrahim

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. — Mo Ibrahim

Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door. — Mo Ibrahim

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. — Mo Ibrahim

I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme ... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread. — Mo Ibrahim

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy. — Mo Ibrahim

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there. — Mo Ibrahim

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it. — Mo Ibrahim

Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time. — Mo Ibrahim

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?' — Mo Ibrahim

Roads are not practical in Africa. — Mo Ibrahim

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure. — Mo Ibrahim

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem. — Mo Ibrahim

If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa. — Mo Ibrahim

Cape Verde produces good people. — Mo Ibrahim

Societies are not sustainable without institutions. — Mo Ibrahim

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise. — Mo Ibrahim

You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another. — Mo Ibrahim

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. — Mo Ibrahim

Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day. — Mo Ibrahim

If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job. — Mo Ibrahim

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy. — Mo Ibrahim

I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering. — Mo Ibrahim

Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa. — Mo Ibrahim

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. — Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints. — Mo Ibrahim

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?' — Mo Ibrahim