It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in.… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
