"Africa is rich, and why are we poor……" — Mo Ibrahim

"Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right."

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89 Quotes by Mo Ibrahim

Mo Ibrahim has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at…
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.

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More Africa Quotes

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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly… — David Attenborough
I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there. — Martha Beck
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these… — Harry Belafonte
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single… — Mary McLeod Bethune
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more… — Steven Biko
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.… — Art Blakey
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we… — Bono

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