- Businessman | May 3, 1946 -
In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.
Mo Ibrahim
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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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What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.
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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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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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I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.
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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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