Mo Ibrahim Quotes

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• There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.
• Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.
• The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.
• Look at the international bodies that came out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they…
• Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.
• Experience counts in government even more than in business.
• Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.
• For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the…
• Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not…
• Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations.
• Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.
• Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries.
• It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.
• Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.
• Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.
• Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door.
• The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really…
• Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant…
• Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.
• All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

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