"When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power,……" — Mo Ibrahim
"When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law."
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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.
More Camara Quotes
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- Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie