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" Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment. "

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" Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening. "

" I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office. "

" The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. "

" Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right. "

" 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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" 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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" Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum. "

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