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