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" The way forward for Africa is investment. "
Mo Ibrahim
Way
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" When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. "
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" It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa. "
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" The brain drain from Africa has been reversed. "
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" If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job. "
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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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" Cape Verde produces good people. "
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" It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it. "
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" 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. "
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" You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another. "
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" In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. "
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" The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. "
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" I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen. "
Mo Ibrahim
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Am
" Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen. "
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" The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail. "
Mo Ibrahim
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Everybody
Able
" 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. "
Mo Ibrahim
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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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" Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day. "
Mo Ibrahim
Morning
Used
Life
" African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints. "
Mo Ibrahim
Leaders
Work
Limitations
" Look at the international bodies that came out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they are completely outdated and still publicly funded because there are no sunset clauses. "
Mo Ibrahim
Because
Know
Sunset
" Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door. "
Mo Ibrahim
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He
" 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. "
Mo Ibrahim
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Hope
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" 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. "
Mo Ibrahim
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American
" Experience counts in government even more than in business. "
Mo Ibrahim
More
Government
Business
" Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure. "
Mo Ibrahim
Hidden
Slavery
Modern
" Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum. "
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Radio
Long Time
" Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. "
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Cooking
Doing
" The mobile industry changed Africa. "
Mo Ibrahim
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" Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there. "
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" 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. "
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Potential
" Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored. "
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