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" The mobile industry changed Africa. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world. "

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

" 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. "

" If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread. "

" Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they? "

" A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development. "

" There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it. "

" I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man. "

" Societies are not sustainable without institutions. "

" Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society. "

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

" Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery. "

" Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there. "

" The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well. "

" I come from a typical family. "

" Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time. "

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

" Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable. "

" Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table. "

" Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great. "

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

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

" While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence. "

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

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

" Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans. "

" 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. "