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" Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries. "

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" Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem. "

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

" The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail. "

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" What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant. "

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" When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. "

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

" Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying. "

" 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. "

" Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society. "

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

" The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. "

" 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. "

" Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow. "

" The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections. "

" The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty. "

" We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime. "

" For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy. "

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

" Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Corruption exists everywhere. "