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" I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man. "
Mo Ibrahim
Empire
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" Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa. "
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" The way forward for Africa is investment. "
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" Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise. "
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" 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. "
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" Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored. "
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" People never confess to failure. They should. "
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" 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. "
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" If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread. "
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" Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news. "
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" Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure. "
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" The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty. "
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" To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa. "
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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 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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" Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they? "
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" We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency. "
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" I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy. "
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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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" Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?' "
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" Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem. "
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" I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. "
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" Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.' "
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" The mobile industry changed Africa. "
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" The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration. "
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" What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant. "
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" 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. "
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