Mo Ibrahim Quotes

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• Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.
• Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.
• The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.
• Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses.
• If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather…
• We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime.
• The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
• Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.
• Societies are not sustainable without institutions.
• If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.
• Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.
• Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.
• The mobile industry changed Africa.
• Corruption exists everywhere.
• Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa.
• I am a Nubian.
• I come from a typical family.
• Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.
• I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.
• I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.

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