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

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" Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa. "

" Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise. "

" You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another. "

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

" Roads are not practical in Africa. "

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

" 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. "

" I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites. "

" Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius. "

" What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens. "

" I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really. "

" The brain drain from Africa has been reversed. "

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

" Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa. "

" Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?' "

" 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. "

" Cape Verde produces good people. "

" 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. "

" After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem. "

" When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media. "

" Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view. "

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

" Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet. "

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

" 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. "

" Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that. "

" I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. "