Mo Ibrahim Quotes

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Mo Ibrahim

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 3, 1946

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 disengaging.

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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 and not get complacent.

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Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.

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Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.'

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In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

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Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

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Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

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What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work.

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Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

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The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.

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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.

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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 than as subjects.

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The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

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

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Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.

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Societies are not sustainable without institutions.

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If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.

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Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

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Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

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The mobile industry changed Africa.

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