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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
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Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right. -- Mo Ibrahim
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When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law. -- Mo Ibrahim
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You get over your first love by falling in love with something new. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Experience counts in government even more than in business. -- Mo Ibrahim
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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
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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
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Roads are not practical in Africa. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great. -- Mo Ibrahim
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When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.' -- Mo Ibrahim
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The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well. -- Mo Ibrahim
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There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. -- Mo Ibrahim
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All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius. -- Mo Ibrahim
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We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.' -- Mo Ibrahim
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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
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The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration. -- Mo Ibrahim
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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
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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
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More people smile at me now I'm richer. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man. -- Mo Ibrahim
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There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it. -- Mo Ibrahim
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While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence. -- Mo Ibrahim
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What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy ... it doesn't work. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations. -- Mo Ibrahim
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For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive. -- Mo Ibrahim
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The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are. -- Mo Ibrahim
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It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa. -- Mo Ibrahim
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If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders. -- Mo Ibrahim
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The mobile industry changed Africa. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites. -- Mo Ibrahim
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After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world. -- Mo Ibrahim
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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
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The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised. -- Mo Ibrahim
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People never confess to failure. They should. -- Mo Ibrahim
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From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries. -- Mo Ibrahim
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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
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I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism. -- Mo Ibrahim
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The brain drain from Africa has been reversed. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool. -- Mo Ibrahim
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The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans. -- Mo Ibrahim
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In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet. -- Mo Ibrahim
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If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects. -- Mo Ibrahim
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We measure everything - why not governance? -- Mo Ibrahim
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Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society. -- Mo Ibrahim
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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
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Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?' -- Mo Ibrahim
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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
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Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population. -- Mo Ibrahim
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The way forward for Africa is investment. -- Mo Ibrahim
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A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development. -- Mo Ibrahim
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The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide? -- Mo Ibrahim
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What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Look at the international bodies that came out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they are completely outdated and still publicly funded because there are no sunset clauses. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Societies are not sustainable without institutions. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results. -- Mo Ibrahim
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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
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African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints. -- Mo Ibrahim
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If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job. -- Mo Ibrahim
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It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Cape Verde produces good people. -- Mo Ibrahim
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The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. -- Mo Ibrahim
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When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media. -- Mo Ibrahim
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We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one. -- Mo Ibrahim
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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
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Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen. -- Mo Ibrahim
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The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I come from a typical family. -- Mo Ibrahim
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To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing -- Mo Ibrahim
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Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office. -- Mo Ibrahim
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In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line. -- Mo Ibrahim
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I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it. -- Mo Ibrahim
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You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another. -- Mo Ibrahim
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If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread. -- Mo Ibrahim
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Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy. -- Mo Ibrahim