Mo Ibrahim Quotes

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• You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.
• You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.
• If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.
• Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.
• Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
• Roads are not practical in Africa.
• Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
• I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
• I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.
• It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.
• From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight.
• People never confess to failure. They should.
• Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging…
• If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.
• Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?
• 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…
• Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity…
• The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty.
• Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.
• Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

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