Mo Ibrahim

Experience counts in government even more than in business.

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the…

— Mo Ibrahim

If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares…

— Mo Ibrahim

Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must…

— Mo Ibrahim

People never confess to failure. They should.

— Mo Ibrahim

Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus…

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

— Mo Ibrahim

Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

Roads are not practical in Africa.

— Mo Ibrahim

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

Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly…

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need…

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

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

— Mo Ibrahim

United States has always been very close to Africa and it's very sad now to see that Africa has a lot more…

— Mo Ibrahim