Mo Ibrahim Quotes

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Mo Ibrahim

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 3, 1946

Corruption exists everywhere.

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Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa.

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I am a Nubian.

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There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people.

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I come from a typical family.

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I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really.

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Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.

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Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

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I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.

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You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.

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You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.

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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'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

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If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

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Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.'

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Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

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After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem.

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What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.

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When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media.

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Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day.

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