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Because Quote by Mo Ibrahim

“The problem is that many times people suspend their common…” quote by Mo Ibrahim — Download Open image

“The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.”

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

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

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