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" Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations. "

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" To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa. "

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

" 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. "

" We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime. "

" I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything. "

" I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread. "

" Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. "

" 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. "

" Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela. "

" We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency. "

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

" I am a Nubian. "

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

" The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are. "

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

" 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. "

" In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. "

" I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people. "

" All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. "

" Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent. "

" 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. "

" Societies are not sustainable without institutions. "

" Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news. "

" 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. "

" Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool. "

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

" There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. "

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

" I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism. "

" Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa. "