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" Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy. "
Mo Ibrahim
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" Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one. "
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" The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice. "
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" If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. "
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" From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight. "
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" I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa. "
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" African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints. "
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" While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence. "
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" The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail. "
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" 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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" 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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