When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news. — 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
If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant. — 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
Look at the international bodies that came out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their… — 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
Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being… — 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
The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail. — 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
