- Businessman | May 3, 1946 -
Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.
Mo Ibrahim
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In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line.
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Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.
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Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table.
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Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.
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Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.
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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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I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.
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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 need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.
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Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.
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African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.
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