What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods… — 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
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
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
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
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
There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share
Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share
